A Massachusetts man has been indicted on
wire and mail fraud charges in connection with a series of on-line scams in
which he received payments from individuals for the purported sale of items
such as laptop computers and video game systems. It is alleged that once he
received the payments, items were never delivered to the buyers and no [...]

Tool company The Stanley Works has tapped Liquidity Services, Inc. (LSI) for a solution that optimizes the sale and rate of return on obsolete and discontinued inventory by remarketing this inventory through online auctions on LSI’s marketplace, www.Liquidation.com.Since establishing the relationship in January 2005, LSI said it has conducted more than 260 bulk auctions for [...]

A blue-and-white, 15th-century
Chinese vase, which Laurance Rockefeller used as a lamp and
Sotheby’s Holdings Inc. valued at up to $400,000, sold last
week for $3.9 million.
The vase was one of the highlights of the record-
setting, Asian art auctions in New York. In six auctions
over three days, Sotheby’s and Christie’s [...]

Bidding started at $12 and peaked at more than $3.6 million before eBay yanked the posting.
It violated company policies barring the sale of people, trying to sell something you do not own and posting joke listings.
You can’t sell the governor on eBay,” said company spokesman Hani Durzy.

On Saturday, Oct. 1 at noon, Royka’s Auctioneers & Appraisers will conduct an auction next to the gallery at 21 Main Street, Lunenburg, featuring over 100 late 19th century theatre posters that were found in a client’s attic. “An incredible find was made by our client. The consignor found a large group of rolled up [...]

The rosewood desk TV talk show host Johnny Carson sat behind for countless celebrity interviews is among the “Tonight Show” items up for grabs.The items will be auctioned on October eighth by Heritage Galleries and Auctioneers of Dallas.Other memorabilia for sale includes:– a studio clock used by Carson– a three-foot-square section of flooring [...]

Greg Manning Auctions, Inc.
(Nasdaq: GMAI) today announced that the Company has changed its corporate name
to Escala Group, Inc., effective today, and will trade on the Nasdaq National
Market under the new ticker symbol ESCL. Escala Group has established its new
corporate headquarters in mid-town Manhattan, New York.

John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics for the Beatles song I’m Only Sleeping are tipped to fetch more than £200,000 when they are sold in London on Wednesday.
The first draft, written on the back of a phone bill, is part of a memorabilia auction at Christie’s in Kensington.
Other lots include a previously unheard interview with Lennon and [...]

Online travel pioneer Dan Whaley, who founded one of the first Internet travel sites and made millions when he sold it five years ago, is auctioning his “waterfront bungalow” in San Mateo, Calif., on eBay.
The 1,650-square foot house, built in 1957, sits on San Mateo Lagoon, which feeds into the San Francisco Bay. It has [...]

Keeneland, which just completed its record-breaking September yearling sale, will catalog 4,477 lots (including three stallion shares) for its November breeding stock sale. The 12-day Central Kentucky auction begins Monday, Nov. 7, and continues through Friday, Nov. 18. Sessions begin at 10 a.m. (EST) daily. The catalog is scheduled to be available for [...]

AuctionCities.com,
Inc., (OTC: AUCC), the originator of “Micro-auctioning”, zip-code focused
local online auctions; today announced a short-term round of funding. Four
classes of warrants previously issued to a select group of private investors
will be called for execution. The Company anticipates raising approximately
$12 Million from the warrants, which are scheduled to begin being exercised
this week.

Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale ended Monday as the highest-grossing thoroughbred auction, setting a number of industry and sale records.
During the 14-day auction, buyers spent $384,349,900, eclipsing the industry record of $324,904,300, set last year. The 3,545 horses sold was also an industry record, topping the [...]

On Oct. 11 in New York City, Sotheby’s auction house will open bidding on Tankersley’s suite of 30 vintage, unretouched Lange photographs at its annual fall auction. The pre-bid estimate for the lot: $50,000 to $70,000
.
Dorothea Lange is one of the most important photographers of the 20th century,” said Christopher Mahoney, a vice president in [...]

Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Kasey Kahne, and Kevin Harvick, partnering with GoMotorBids.com, raised $86,577 in a 16 day online auction. Sponsored by GoMotorBids.com and benefiting the drivers charities, the auction consisted of a mixture of authentic race-used items, uniforms that had been graciously donated by the driver or teams, plus rare and unique die cast [...]

As many as 10 tax-delinquent properties, including a potentially valuable subdivision site, are scheduled to hit the auction block Thursday.
State Marshal Robert Miller will sell the properties under the direction of Revenue Collection Manager Mary Nardini in hopes of collecting more than $219,000 in back taxes.
The city resumed tax warrant auctions after a one-year delay [...]