Trading standards officers are demanding tighter regulations for websites which sell food products after they found three quarters of food for sale on eBay fails relevant hygiene and packaging laws.
Investigators bought 89 products, 65 of which were unfit for sale in a British supermarket (73 per cent). Faulty labelling was the main problem of 51 […]
eBay has hit back at claims from consumer magazine Computing Which? that suggest the company should do more to protect its users from fraudsters.
The magazine has said eBay shows too little interest in identifying fraudsters among its user-base and supported that claim with figures from the Metropolitan Police.
Jessica Ross, editor of Computing Which? said eBay […]
ONLINE auction site eBay needs to do more to tackle fraud, a leading consumer watchdog has warned after a spike in the number of eBay related complaints to the police.
The Metropolitan Police said it is dealing with 130 eBay crimes a month, a number that Which? claims is mirrored across the UK.
According to the Police, […]
Police are investigating an alleged scam in which household goods were stolen from a Bristol warehouse and sold from Devon via eBay.
Brabantia ironing boards, kitchen utensils and other goods valued at more than £10,000 and £5,000 in cash have been seized by police.
They seized the goods from houses in Barnstaple and Umberleigh.
The police believe they […]
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has paid £30,000 at a charity auction for a family tree drawn by author JK Rowling.
Radcliffe, 16, who plays the schoolboy wizard on screen, bought a handwritten history of the family of Sirius Black, his character’s godfather.
Rowling donated the document to the sale by Book Aid International, which provides books […]
An historic landmark with no reserve price was sold at auction for £330,000.
The disused water tower called “Jumbo†in Colchester, Essex was auctioned with planning consent for a penthouse flat.
Several schemes to develop the 131 ft landmark, which was taken out of commission in the 1980s, have failed.
Dublin-based James Adam & Sons, has become the first auction house in Ireland to introduce live internet bidding into art and antique sales, leading the way in auction information communication technology.
Working with online auctioneer specialists, Live Auctioneers in association with eBay Live Auctions, Adam’s is offering clients the first opportunity to view and bid online […]