Burned through your funding? Sell your Dot Flop on eBay!!!!!!

[mandy]

What do Beanie Babies, Pez Dispensers and troubled Internet companies have in common? They're all for sale on eBay.

More than 10 dot-coms have recently sought buyers on the popular auction site. Search engine DigForIt.com sold for $25,400 this month after promising bidders "great revenue potential." SynapseLife, an online calendar and organizational site, sold for $60,000 despite warning it had "no advertising revenue."

Corporate acquisitions are usually handled by investment bankers or merger experts. EBay is best known for consumer goods. Still, entrepreneurs are turning there because deals are simple, fast and cheap. "On eBay, you have it closed within a month," says SynapseLife co-founder Mark Michael...

full article: http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/co...0809990001

The colorful newspaper today reported that more than 10 dot-coms have recently sold themselves on the auction site. I'm not sure what's crazier, the fact that companies are selling themselves on eBay or the fact that people are paying six figures for companies they find on the site.

How good could a legitimate company that needs to troll for buyers on eBay possibly be?...

full article: http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/05/21...d-on-ebay/