Thompson would only say that the company won't be using a significant portion of its funds for the auction.

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Mr Teso built his simulator using spare parts from real jets for sale on the eBay auction site.

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Service Metrics watched auction sites for three months around the clock, using data collection agents around the country running standard Netscape or IE browsers and a T1 connection.

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Marketplace and auction juggernaut eBay is even sweetening the deal by offering customers free services at Bliss Spas just for using their mobile phones to shop and offering mobile-only deals of up to 80% off on Cyber Monday.

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