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After iPhone 4 debut, older iPhones flood market

From Bloomberg | Consumers are selling old iPhones on eBay and other sites after Apple’s record-setting debut of the iPhone 4. Gazelle.com, a site that buys electronics from consumers, purchased 20,000 used iPhones in the two weeks after Apple and AT&T Inc. began taking preorders for the iPhone 4. That compares with 350 in a typical two-week period.

Sun-Times in venture to compete with eBay

From Crain’s Chicago Business | Sun-Times Media and more than 300 media and broadcast companies have teamed up with Ranger Data Technologies Inc. to form a national online auction house, Boocoo.com. It is designed to compete with eBay and Craigslist.