May 22, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Ebay":
National: 1 May 12
A man from North Rhine-Westphalia bought Chancellor Angela Merkel’s first “west car” for slightly more than €10,000, after an initial auction produced too many ridiculous bids and was cancelled, the Bild newspaper reported Monday.
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Society: 5 Apr 12
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s old VW Golf is for sale on Ebay, with the seller hoping to get at least €10,000 for it – even though it is 22 years old and already has 190,000 kilometres on the clock.
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Society: 28 Mar 12
A man who bought a fake luxury mobile phone via Ebay for €782 stands to get €23,000 in damages after the German Supreme Court ruled that the €1 price was no indication that it was not a real one.
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Society: 8 Mar 12
A 19-year-old Cologne postman, plus his mother, and stepfather, who worked as sub-contractors for the German postal service, are suspected of stealing over 1,000 parcels.
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Society: 28 Dec 11
A member of the well-known American heavy metal band Mastodon has claimed that a German boy ripped him off in an Ebay internet scam.
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Business & Money: 30 Sep 11
IT giant Hewlett-Packard is paying Léo Apotheker a hefty settlement for his 11 months work, it emerged Friday. The German former CEO will receive around $13 million (€9.5 million) and get his move back to Europe paid to boot.
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Society: 29 Jul 11
Online auction site eBay and its subsidiary PayPal are prohibiting German merchants from doing Cuba-related transactions, prompting accusations the company is violating European law.
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Society: 23 Jul 11
The head of a Shakespeare troupe in Berlin has been forced to auction off on eBay a life-sized replica of the famed Globe Theatre used in a film by Hollywood director Roland Emmerich.
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National: 11 Jul 11
Secret building plans for the new headquarters of Germany's BND Intelligence agency have disappeared and a high-ranking employee is suspected of downloading porn to his work computer, according to media reports.
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Analysis & Opinion: 5 Apr 11
In the latest installment of Portnoy’s Stammtisch, The Local’s column about life in Germany, Portnoy purges years of junk with a 30-day eBay program that works better than any diet.
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Lifestyle: 7 Feb 11
Exberliner, Berlin’s leading English-language magazine, in February finds feline luck, tests a new French watering hole in Mitte, and gives an automatic prayer booth a try.
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Business & Money: 20 Dec 10
US online auction giant eBay said Monday that it has agreed to buy brands4friends, Germany's largest online fashion shopping club, for $200 million (€150 million) in cash.
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National: 15 Dec 10
The city of Düsseldorf may have made false promises in its winning bid to host the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest, according to a paper from the rival city of Hannover on Wednesday.
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Society: 15 Dec 10
As the snow keeps falling in Germany, an enterprising man in the state of Saxony has decided to auction off a huge pile of the white stuff on eBay. But the winning bidder will have to arrange their own delivery.
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Business & Money: 17 May 10
The popular US online discount service Groupon announced on Monday it would takeover its European rival Citydeal just months after the German clone website was established.
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Lifestyle: 13 Apr 10
This month Exberliner, Berlin's leading English-language magazine, gets literary, goes retro and comes up smelling like roses.
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Society: 1 Apr 10
It’s the virtual equivalent of a German flea market – without the hippies and stolen bikes. Etsy, the American social commerce website focused on handmade and vintage goods, is going international this week with a new headquarters in Berlin.
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Science & Technology: 2 Dec 09
Hollywood’s raven-haired beauty Megan Fox has edged out Britney Spears as the most googled person in Germany, according to the company’s “Zeitgeist 2009” list released this week.
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Society: 1 Dec 09
Just after the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, pieces of the Bornholmer Straße border crossing between East and West Berlin go up for sale Tuesday on internet auction site eBay.
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Business & Money: 1 Oct 09
Internet auction website eBay announced on Thursday it was eliminating 400 of its 1,000 jobs in Germany due to restructuring its European customer service operations.
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Sport: 20 May 09
A fist-sized wad of paper that sparked controversy during a UEFA Cup semi-final between Hamburg SV and Werder Bremen two weeks ago is now for sale on internet auction site Ebay. The auction ends Wednesday night.
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Society: 2 Apr 09
A German court ruled on Thursday that a man who accidentally sold a Porsche 911 on eBay for €5.50 will not have to pay the buyer damages after refusing to deliver the sports car.
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Society: 28 Mar 09
The interest for a single-property village in Saxony placed on the internet auction website Ebay is growing fast, according to its seller.
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Lifestyle: 9 Mar 09
This month Exberliner, Berlin's leading English-language magazine, picks the best places to show off your Wii moves, hang out with the cool crowd in Mitte and play bingo with a twist.
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Society: 4 Jan 09
The controversial eBay auction of a handful of possessions of Thomas Dörflein, deceased zookeeper of Berlin’s famous polar bear Knut, ended Saturday evening, taking a total of nearly €7,000.
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Society: 30 Dec 08
The children of late zookeeper Thomas Dörflein have put some of their father’s personal effects for sale on eBay. But his former fiancée has called the auctions "tasteless" and accused them of trading on Dörflein’s celebrity.
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Science & Technology: 9 Dec 08
Apple’s online music store iTunes in Germany has removed two albums from a neo-Nazi band after technology magazine Computerbild informed the company of the objectional content.
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Business & Money: 28 Oct 08
The German unit of internet auction website Ebay is reportedly planning to relocate key positions from its Berlin offices to London and Zurich. The total number of workers affected by the staff reduction is still unknown.
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Analysis & Opinion: 23 Oct 08
Worried about the global economic meltdown? Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, has come up with a simple A to Z survival guide for the hard times in Germany.
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National: 6 Oct 08
German police searched more than 140 apartments for stolen electronic goods in a nationwide search for illegal ebay dealers, a police spokesperson told daily Berliner Morgenpost on Monday.
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Society: 3 Jul 08
The German parents caught offering their baby for sale on Ebay will go unpunished, prosecutors in Memmingen said on Thursday.
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Society: 26 Jun 08
A blond lock of hair that British supermodel Kate Moss reputedly lost in Berlin is being auctioned on eBay to raise money for an anti-drug charity, the Berliner Zeitung reported on Thursday.
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Lifestyle: 5 Jun 08
Exberliner, the German capital's leading English-language magazine, presents its picks of the month, including where to find African books and vintage shades.
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Society: 23 May 08
A young Bavarian couple has offered their baby for sale on the internet auction site Ebay, prompting a police investigation.
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Society: 7 May 08
A potato destined for the fryer has become a holy relic to some Berliners after a woman cut it open only to find an image of a cross inside.
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Society: 10 Apr 08
Germany's Central Council of Sinti and Roma on Thursday demanded internet auction site eBay ban the sale of football paraphernalia printed with "Nazi propaganda" insulting the minority.
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Business & Money: 11 Feb 08
Ebay sellers in Germany and around the world plan embargo in protest to changes in the online auction system.
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