QSR magazine: Yoshinoya, a Japanese restaurant company with more than 1,300 locations throughout the world and a history that began in a Tokyo fish market nearly 110 years ago, has announced 2 new appointments in a plan that will expand its base of 86 restaurants in the United States through nationwide... More

Auction Bytes QuikDrop is closing its eBay drop-off store franchise business at the end of the month, but franchise stores will be able to continue to use the QuikDrop name, logos, and signage. A conversation with the company’s cofounder Jack Reynolds on Wednesday netted a laundry list of complaints... More

Auction Bytes Auctioning4u announced it has signed an agreement to buy the assets of iSold It UK, which went into receivership. Both companies operate eBay drop-off stores in the United Kingdom, but with different business models. iSold It UK had the rights to sell franchise stores in the UK under an... More

Post Gazette The get-rich-quick fantasy is fading for the eBay drop-off store business. The recent years’ explosion of grand openings by independent operators and franchisors ready to help consumers sell the stuff in their attic online appears to have slowed as experience proves how hard it can... More

Online Sales Strategies Inc. has agreed to sell its eBay franchise business “The Online Outpost” to GIGcom Inc. for 10 million common shares of GIGcom stock. Tampa-based GIGcom is a privately held company that plans a roll-up of similar Internet businesses. At the completion of the transaction,... More

Orlando Sentinal Add Florida to the growing list of states deciding how to deal with eBay and some of its top agents — the businesses that sell stuff for other people. Are they auctioneers? Pawnbrokers? Secondhand shops? Or something else? There is no shortage of opinions on the matter. And certainly... More

USA Today Raise your hand if you sell on eBay and don’t report your income to the tax-man. A United States IRS advisory committee recommended the IRS require Internet business sites to get tax identification numbers from all sellers, according to USA Today. It appears this non-governmental panel... More

In June, eBay launched Skype integration in a limited number of categories. On Wednesday, eBay announced it is expanding the number of categories in which sellers will be allowed to add Skype Me buttons to their listings. Skype is eBay’s VoIP Internet telephony service that allows users to make... More

Through an exclusive new partnership between no-commission real estate leader ForSaleByOwner.com and the eBay drop-off franchise QuikDrop, consumers around the country now have an easy option to sell their home — and its entire contents — online at the same time. QuikDrop is the premier franchise... More

Microsoft’s recently launched Windows Live Expo (http://expo.live.com) bills itself as “a dynamic social listing service.” It is a free classifieds-style site with categories including Autos, Events, Housing, Jobs, Merchandise, People, Pets and Services. The two categories of particular... More

Auction Bytes In a recent survey of readers, AuctionBytes.com discovered that 98% of respondents have received phishing emails purporting to be from eBay, and 14% have responded to them. These hoax attempts come in the form of emails purporting to be from eBay that try to trick recipients into revealing... More

Auction Bytes: In the last 12 months, eBay has increased auction-format listing fees, final value fees, launched eBay Express, significantly increased eBay Store fees, and made numerous other changes which have severely impacted many smaller sellers’ businesses.eBay’s target inventory has... More