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CANBERRA (Reuters) – When Ian Usher’s partner of 12 years left him broken-hearted, he decided the best way to move forward was to auction his whole life, in one job lot.
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From Sunday, June 22 for one week, Usher’s life is up for sale on eBay with the package including his $420,000 (US$397,000) three-bedroom house in Perth, Western Australia, a trial for his job at a rug store, his car, motorbike, clothes and even friends.

Usher, 44, told Reuters he had been inundated with emails from all over the world since he put his life up for grabs in March, largely from people supporting him but also from those who were asking for advice on how to change their own lives.

“I was taken aback by how much interest there has been and by the amount of people it has inspired and had an impact on,” said Usher who is hoping to raise up to $500,000 to fund a new life.

Full story here.

Name of your website?

Buy and Sell Plus

Your name?

Zjin Malvar

Your Location (city, etc)

Paranaque City

Please give us a short summary of your website?

Buyandsellplus.com is a community where anyone gets a chance to sell and post ads for free. Through the Classifieds, users may choose to register their items as “Hotgrabs” where it can be seen on the front page of the site or “Featured” items which will be visible on selected category. Members can exchange items with other users using Trading Corner, sell items at the highest bidder on Auction or post an item you want, need or searching for on Looking For.

What inspired you to launch your own website?

I want to help other people make money buy selling old stuff or things they don’t need anymore by posting it online – free of charge. If people doesn’t have money and they want to exchange things for free, then they can trade-in online, or they can bid their stuff to earn more money. If they’re collecting or looking for a certain item, they can also advertise it for free.

Full read here.

On May 1st, angry eBay users began another round of boycotts, this time with no end in sight unless eBay reverses the fee and policy changes that enraged so many sellers in the first place. Even if eBay did reverse course, a number of eBay buyers and sellers may never return to the service. Complete read here.

OLX, a CraigsList look-alike, has secured some $13.5 million in second round funding according to a report from PEHub.com. Backers are listed as General Catalyst Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Founders Fund and DN Capital.

This is one we have looked into before when doing comparisons. It is of those online portal and classifieds destinations that has sprouted up on the web last year (although it says founded 2006). The focus on this one seems to be more of an international focus rather than US-dominated, although many listings are in the U.S. Story here.

eBay.com continued to suffer declining traffic in February, but not enough to knock it from its perennial perch as the top online shopping destination as reported by Nielsen Online. Unique traffic to eBay.com slipped 5% in February from February a year ago, to 56.6 million. But by unique visitors, eBay still outnumbered No. 2 Amazon by 19%. Amazon, where traffic grew by a healthy 17% in February, hosted 47.7 unique visitors in February, Nielsen Online reports. Complete story here.

Notwithstanding regulatory issues, eBay says it remains positive about its business in the country and added that it is making progress in addressing market constraints.

“The Philippines is starting to hit its inflection point,” said Dan Neary, vice president for emerging markets, eBay Southeast Asia.

Neary added that the Philippines is an “extremely profitable” market for the US dot-com giant right now. Full Story

Here’s the overall rankings:

Activists opposed to eBay’s 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 succeed where past protests have failed.

The boycott, planned to run Feb. 19 – 25, is scheduled to overlap eBay’s Feb. 20 rollout of significant changes announced last month. (more…)

Well the principle was first tested by Sam Walton when he started his WalMart, which ended Walmart as the number retail store in US. Which was replicated by ShoeMart(SM) in the Philippines and many others in this field. Which made SM as the number one reatil store in the Philippines and garnered the top 3 biggest malls in the whole world. Full entry here.

MARKETING professional Willy E. Arcilla has agreed to help eight readers of INQUIRER.net who need guidance to grow their start-up businesses in a business-mentoring activity for the publication’s entrepreneurship blog called Open For Business.

Arcilla will meet with ten selected readers once a month for 12 months, and help them with their strategies in positioning and marketing their products. The progress of these businesses for the duration of the exercise will be published Open For Business so that other entrepreneurs can benefit from them.

Inquirer news article here.

The blog entry here.

Details on how to apply for this free business ride can be found at the links above.