If this Christmas your Granny gave you another knitted jumper you’ll never wear, this January you can turn your unwanted Christmas presents into cash with eBay on your mobile. From today, online auction site eBay will be available on i-mode®, the brand new internet service for your mobile exclusive to O2 – and Granny need never know you got what you really wanted for Christmas with the money!   With your i-mode phone you can now buy, sell and track that all important sale on eBay. That means you can see who’s bidding for your toaster when you are waiting for a train or even watching a football match. And if you’re bidding – you’ve got the advantage as you can put a bid on anytime, anywhere.*   You can view all of your familiar ‘My eBay’ features, including ‘items I am watching’, ‘items I am bidding on’, ‘items I am selling’ and ‘items I have won’. From today, you’ll also be able to bid in real time for goods online from more than 13,000 categories just as you would from your PC and fixed internet connection. What’s more you can be safe in the knowledge that when you’re buying something on eBay through your i-mode mobile it will be just as secure as it is through a PC, because i-mode is based on trusted, open GSM and Internet standards.   eBay is the latest in an ever-growing list of well known brands to join the i-mode service, which was launched in the UK in October 2005 and is available exclusively on O2. i-mode. It is easy to use and offers fast, one touch access to over 126 leading mobile Internet sites such as Monster.com, Egg, Rightmove.co.uk, Universal and Interflora.  i-mode was developed by NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile operator, and has attracted over 50 million users in 22 countries since its launch six years ago.   O2 currently offers four i-mode handsets, the Samsung S500i, Samsung Z320i, NEC 411i and the NEC 343i with more launching throughout 2006. For more information on i-mode or to buy an i-mode handset, log on to www.o2.co.uk or visit your local O2 store. *Subject to network coverage

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