Ritchie Bros has conducted its first unreserved agricultural auction in the U.S.A. since acquiring Buxton-based Dennis Biliske Auctioneers.
The multi-million dollar unreserved agricultural auction, which featured over 375 lots, was held February 23 in Buxton, North Dakota and attracted over 850 interested bidders from 27 U.S. states plus six other countries. Internet bidders using the [...]

Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton Florida select sale of 2-year-olds in training has a lot to live up to in its 2006 edition. Last year, its gross revenue, average price, and median price all were world records for a juvenile auction. In addition, Ever Shifting, a Tale of the Cat – Carry All colt, became the highest-priced 2-year-old [...]

The estate of late Montreal Canadiens goaltending great Jacques Plante put more than 50 pieces of memorabilia up for auction Monday, on the 20th anniversary of his death.
The auction is being run by Classic Collectibles, the world’s top hockey auction house. It also managed the auction of Plante’s Hall of Fame teammate Jean Beliveau last [...]

eBay is hitting back at a British magazine’s assertion that the site has become a hotbed for various types of fraud.
Computing Which? magazine published a story calling on eBay to do more to protect users of the site from fraud, saying that by its count some 130 eBay-related fraud reports are filed with police in [...]

The Premiere Napa Valley mid-winter auction raised a record $1.87 million Saturday, 28 percent more than 2005’s total of almost $1.46 million.
The Napa Valley Vintners trade association, which sponsors the decade-old, wine-trade-only event, said Monday that 67 bidders bought 181 lots of wine, including five-case, 10-case and 20-case lots at the annual event, which raises [...]

The Federal Trade Commission announced the launch of “Auction Action” today, a point-based game that scores users on how successfully they can answer questions about online auctions.
“In 2005, the FTC received 20,450 complaints related to internet auctions, or about 12 percent of the total number of complaints, making it the second-most common kind of complaint [...]

The world record for a musical instrument sold at auction could come under threat in May, when Christie’s offers a rare Stradivari violin for sale in New York.
The violin, known as “The Hammer” after the 19th century Swedish collector Christian Hammer, has been given a pre-sale estimate of between 1.5 million and 2.5 million dollars.
The [...]

Press Release
Marketworks, a multi-channel e-commerce solution provider, today announced the launch of PerfectAD, a listing solution targeted specifically to eBay’s business equipment sellers. Marketworks, a member of the eBay Developers Program and an eBay Certified Solution Provider, developed PerfectAD to help large equipment sellers efficiently create comprehensive eBay listings to quickly sell bulky, high-priced [...]

Brokeback Mountain star Jake Gyllenhaal has sold one of the shirts he wore in the film for a huge sum of money, for charity.
The star put the shirt on Ebay, starting the bidding at $9.99 and 150 bids later, it went for a whopping £101 000 to a mystery fan. Gyllenhaal plans to donate the [...]

The Wood County Sheriff’s Department also made a breakthrough in another case.
And they might have found some of your belongings.
After getting a tip, authorities recovered the majority of $5,000 worth of goods stolen from the Arpin Consignment Auctions and Surplus Center on January 26th.
The property was stored at a Rudolph house by several people in [...]

Office furniture, tools, books, school desks and computers used by the now defunct Decker College will be auctioned off this weekend.
Some of the computers might have been searched by the F-B-I, which is conducting a criminal investigation on the once-booming for-profit trade school.
Decker College was associated with former Massachusetts Governor William Weld, but has since [...]

Ice skating fans all across America can visit ticketmaster.com beginning Fri., Feb. 24 at 10:00 AM (local) and bid for the chance to win front row tickets to see the newly- crowned Olympic figure skating champions perform in the John Hancock Champions on Ice 2006 Tour. The tour currently features Olympic silver & bronze medalist [...]

Online retail sales grew 24.6 percent in 2005, reaching $86.3 billion from $69.3 billion in 2004, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce Census Bureau report, which is considered the benchmark for industry researchers, reports Internet Retailer. In 4Q05 online retail sales increased 23.4 percent over 4Q04, reaching $26.5 billion from $21.5 billion; Q4 sales [...]

The system, which officials believe is the first of its kind in New Jersey, informs foreclosure defendants that they are entitled to the surplus created when homes are sold for more than the defendants owe. For example, if a property sells at foreclosure for $100,000, and the money owed is $50,000, the surplus owed to [...]

Clubfurniture.com, a leading online retailer of high-quality, handcrafted, domestically-manufactured furniture and accessories, announced that it will auction the headboards that were used in furnishing the Apprentice contestants’ Trump Tower suite on the upcoming season of The Apprentice, premiering Monday at 9/8c on NBC, and donate the proceeds to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The auctions [...]