It has been 27 years since the first eBay item was sold: a broken laser pointer

Sep 4 2022

It has officially been 27 years since the first eBay purchase ever was made and if that’s not enough to make you feel old, here’s the full story.

Back in September 1995, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and Mark Fraser conducted an exchanged with made online shopping history after locking in a sale of a broken laser pointer.

Omidyar had spent the entirety of his Labor Day weekend at home writing eBay’s code, not knowing that he was about to revolutionise the online shopping experience with a concept never seen before. Originally launched as AuctionWeb, Omidyar listed the faulty laster pointer for $1 before people started placing bids and brought the final price up to $14.83.

Fraser, from Canada, explains that he bought the object because standard, fully-operational laster pointers cost around $100 those days and his boss definitely wasn’t going to fund it, so he thought he’d build it himself.

Nowadays, Fraser is an icon in eBay history, once used to support the company’s slogan that “people will buy anything”, but his relationship with the company remains strong and wholesome, admitting that in 2015, he had bought over 2000 items from the site.

Have you ever used eBay?

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Goodbye summer? Temperature drop & stormy weather expected next week

Sep 4 2022

With the start of September, temperatures in Malta are expected to start decreasing gradually, with a sharp drop expected next week.

Despite temperature highs of 35°C on Sunday and Monday, temperatures are expected to go as low as 24°C from Tuesday onwards, according to the Malta International Airport’s Meteorological Report.

Anticipating another week of warm weather before a sharp change, local weather page ‘It-Temp Madwarna’ reports the first stretch of stormy weather and lower temperatures towards the beginning of next week.

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Five men arrested after attempted theft in Marsa

Sep 4 2022

On Saturday, at around 1am, the Malta Police Force was informed of suspicious activity from 5 men near Il-Moll tal-Ħatab in Marsa.

Officials from within the Rapid Intervention Unit (RIU) were on site within moments, finding and arresting five men aged between 19 and 26 from within one of the area’s warehouses.

The men were reportedly wearing dark clothing and gloves, with the police also finding a large pair of bolt cutters and signs of forced entry in two other warehouses.

Investigations are currently under way, with the police discovering that the men allegedly stole from the same spots days before.

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Greater Flamingo found illegally shot and wounded off Gozo coast

Sep 3 2022

Taking to social media, Bird Life Malta posted a shocking image of an injured adult Greater Flamingo which was just recovered off a Gozitan coast.

This is reportedly the third of such birds recovered since the start of the autumn hunting season which kicked off last Thursday.

In an accompany Facebook video, a BirdLife Malta representative explained that flamingoes are often spotted migrating close to Malta and this one was either shot off the coast or even from the sea.

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Despite there being harsh fines for shooting such birds, the representative said that some local hunters do not seem to care when hunting such species down.

The flamingo was taken for further medical attention at the veterinary following this news release. Its state is currently unknown.

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