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 The online world is noisy enough as it is. Everyone is trying to get everyone’s attention to sell whatever it is they have.

Ticketmaster has reached an agreement with the state of New Jersey about how it handles online ticket sales after complaints from users about how it redirected them to its reseller site TicketsNow and charged them up to 50 times the face value for Bruce Springsteen tickets.

This ought to ruffle some feathers. An eBay seller forwarded an email they received from an eBay customer service rep. to Ina Steiner at AuctionBytes.

Facebook has lifted its restrictions on applications that contain content that promote or reference the sale of alcoholic beverages.The company says it will use its Demographic Restriction feature to manage the way alcoholic content appears to its users. Facebook's restriction technology is based on a combination of what information a user has entered and verified on the site along with IP targeting by location.

eBay users have been curious to find out who submitted an anonymous filing to the Australian regulatory agency that is reviewing eBay's plan to move to a PayPal only option.The submission says eBay should not be allowed to exclude competing payment methods. An AuctionBytes reader found a 38-page PDF filing that appears to have come from Google.

Online auction site eBay has begun to introduce changes in the feedback that sellers can leave about buyers. The changes were first announced in January.Sellers on eBay are no longer allowed to leave neutral or negative comments about buyers on the site. eBay has also changed the way it calculates a member's positive feedback percentage score.

On Webmaster Help Center Google discretely specifies the policy pertaining to "Paid Links".

Remember Whole Foods, and how the strange man who serves as its CEO secretly criticized an acquisition target?  Well, Whole Foods’s board of directors seems to feel it would be best if John Mackey - and all other executives - kept their mouths shut and fingers still.