(FORTUNE Small Business) — A weeklong eBay (EBAY, Fortune 500) boycott initiated by sellers upset with fee and policy changes that began rolling out last week ended Monday with uncertain results.
During the first three days of the boycott, Medved.net, a third-party Web site that tracks eBay’s listings totals, reported a decline of about 17% in [...]
Archive for November, 2009
CNN – EBay boycott winds down
CNN – EBay seller boycott set to start Monday
Ebay sellers plan a weeklong strike to protest changes to the site’s fee, search and feedback policies.
By Stacy Cowley
(FORTUNE Small Business) — Activists opposed to eBay’s (EBAY, Fortune 500) upcoming fee and policy changes are readying for a weeklong site boycott starting on Monday, with buyers and sellers waiting to see if this strike will [...]
Gold as a Way to Invest Your Money
Currently, most people use gold as a way to save their money. Because the price of gold always increases each time. Now, people are still confused with sites that have content about selling or buying gold. Of the reasons, Goldcoinsgain offers to buy gold coins. Familiar with the site, Goldcoinsgain can make visitors confidence to [...]
How the eBay API Works
The underlying process of placing a call to the API is conceptually quite simple. First, your program sends an XML string to eBay with the name of the API call and any additional required fields. Here’s an example XML request for the GetSearchResults function:
<?xml version=’1.0′ encoding=’iso-8859-1′?>
<request>
<RequestUserId>my_user_id</RequestUserId>
<RequestPassword>my_password</RequestPassword>
<ErrorLevel>1</ErrorLevel>
<DetailLevel>0</DetailLevel>
<Verb>GetSearchResults</Verb>
<SiteId>0</SiteId>
<Query>![CDATA[*abbey road*]]</Query>
</request>
eBay then responds with more XML, from which your [...]
The eBay API
eBay is more than just a web site. It’s a platform upon which you can build your own applications and with which you can extend your business.
The eBay API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of functions you can integrate with your applications to communicate directly with eBay. Use the API to retrieve details about [...]
Process PayPal Payments Automatically (2)
The Script
The following Perl script does everything required to accept IPN notifications; all you need to do is modify the $workdir variable to reflect a valid path on your server.
[1] Portions based on sample code by PayPal and David W. Van Abel (www.perlsources.com).
This script requires the LWP::UserAgent Perl module by Alan E. Derhaag, available at [...]







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