EBay Treasure Hunt is ON!

As per the Ebay Announcements Board: Starting at midnight on Wednesday, February 16th, we're going to hide $1,000 cash prizes in special listings on eBay.com and eBay Motors.

For eight days, we'll list 25 listings a day at various times, going through the end of Wednesday, February 23, 2005. To help you find the prizes, we'll post a clue on our “Get Clues” page for each listing we put up. In celebration of President's Day, the clues will be words or phrases relating to U.S. Presidents, U.S. history or other Americana.

Each clue will be a puzzle, and solving it will help you find the hidden prizes! Since we'll be listing items and posting clues at different times throughout each day, you'll want to check the page frequently.

Here's an example of how a clue might work: Let's say you figure that the answer to the clue we've given you is “motherhood.” With that answer in mind, you might try searching on “maternity dress” to try to find the hidden listing. If you find it, you'll know – just follow the instructions on the item page to claim your prize.

We've made it so that none of the text in the description is searchable, so you'll have to use your wits (and maybe some teamwork) to figure out where the prizes are! In addition, you can also enter our Grand Prize Sweepstakes for a chance to win $25,000, plus an eBay Featured Store subscription for life!

Every day, you can earn one entry into the sweepstakes simply by buying, bidding on or listing an item (up to a total of 8 entries) on eBay.com or eBay Motors. For more information about the eBay Treasure Hunt and to go to the Get Clues page, please click here. Here's to a great Treasure Hunt.

Happy Hunting!