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The seller claims that her daughter was able to get close enough to Pink at her Funhouse tour in Melbourne, back in August, and captured the So What singer's breath. "My daughter is such a huge fan that she thought of this on her own and got close enough for her to breath in the bottle and catch her breath in a bottle," she wrote. Already at 18 bids, the bottled breath has jumped to almost $30.  

If you've ever collected baseball cards, comic books, stamps, or maybe those limited edition commemorative plates, you understand the concept of the "Holy Grail" item. It's that last, hard-to-find, incredibly rare, usually expensive piece that you have to have before you can officially say your collection is complete. If you're a collector of vintage home video game cartridges (or "carts"), sometimes that can mean paying a pretty penny for the pièce de résistance. 1.  

John Donahoe, eBay's CEO, received compensation valued at $10.1 million in 2009, according to a regulatory filing Friday. That's 55 percent less than in 2008, when he got more stock and options. Donahoe, 49, has led the San Jose online auction site since Meg Whitman retired in March 2008.  

Those internal memos "leaked" by campaigns, ostensibly to give a glimpse of strategic discussions among top operatives, are beginning to take on the look of glorified press releases. Take the one that Meg Whitman's campaign sent to Jon Fleischman over at the FlashReport (and then reverbed in a blast email to reporters). Addressed to Mike Murphy, Whitman's chief strategist, by her public opinion consultants John McLaughlin and David Hill, the memo has absolutely no intrinsic value, no analysis that Murph  

An eBayer, who went by the username of Hitman, placed a bid on a like-new, 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8, placed by Glenn E Thomas Dodge Chrysler Jeep. At the time the auction ended, Hitman was the highest bidder, thus winning the item for $29,100. This price happens to be $13,000 less than what the dealership had intended to let it go for. Glenn E Thomas Dodge Chrysler Jeep, who placed the vehicle for auction, claims that a Reserve Price of $42,995 and a Buy It Now price of $43,425 was initially posted wh  

Two Genesis games thought to be lost forever have been found on eBay. Tags: Nuvision is a game publisher that has always fascinated me for some bizarre reason.  

Their reasons differed, but metro Atlantans Jennifer Thomas, Kerry Alt and Terri Trew all saw having a home-based business as a solution to a life problem. Thomas wanted to spend more time with her kids and make up household earnings lost when her husband got laid off. Alt had suffered a disabling injury in an accident and didn't want "to waste away."

I had a vision of having a good business that would allow me to be at home and maybe make it into a family thing one day   -Jennifer Thomas

 

eBay's PayPal is an online payment processing platform that charges a small fee for facilitating a payment between two parties. We estimate that PayPal constitutes 26% of the $42 Trefis price estimate for eBay's stock and we believe that mobile phone transactions will play an increasingly important role for PayPal. PayPal's mobile transactions have increased nearly six-fold from $25 million in 2008 to $141 million in 2009.