Press Release
Oltiby Inc. has recently enhanced its Website to give buyers even more power to control prices for the items they purchase at auctions. The exciting enhancements at Oltiby.com are part of the company’s online reverse auction service that allows buyers to set the price — not sellers.
Oltiby.com provides an innovative online marketplace for buyers [...]

Property Auction Info
An historic, pristine waterfront tract along the St. Martin’s River and Assawoman Bay made up of three parcels totaling more than 400 acres will finally come up for auction tomorrow after years of dispute about its ownership.
The property’s former owner, the late John G. Townsend, a former governor of Delaware at the turn [...]

A health-related lawsuit filed against Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin and other agency members seeks to block the scheduled June 29 start of the advanced wireless services auction.
The EMR Policy Institute, a watchdog group concerned about health implications of cellular phones and wireless transmitting towers, said the purpose of the suit is to halt [...]

eBayyer
Auction postings on eBay could allow attackers to steal customer information, according to a new release from the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team.
The malicious coder could use scripts in product descriptions to modify pages on eBay or redirect users to another page.

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Oak Bluffs police are investigating the apparent theft of a 70-year-old town land record book that was sold last month on eBay.
Lieut. Timothy Williamson yesterday confirmed that police are looking into the disappearance of a 1926 Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company Tax Ledger from the vault at town hall on School street.
Kyle [...]

The diary of George Washington, consisting of twenty-two pages in his handwriting, and written in the year 1767, has been sold by auction to the Congressional Library for $700.

Bidding on a1792 half dime – one of the very first coins struck by the United States – started at $750,000, before ending with an Internet bidder who advanced $1.15 million for the coin.
With a 15 percent buyer’s premium added on, the coin sold for $1,322,500, said James L. Halperin, co-chairman of Heritage Auction Galleries [...]

The former Fitzsimmons Trailer Park sold at a second auction Thursday for $1.55 million to an unnamed bidder.
Bidding started at $795,000, well above Palm Bay’s $20,000 bid that was highest at a Dec. 21 auction. A bankruptcy judge is expected to confirm the sale Tuesday. Federal Judge Karen Jennemann ordered the second auction because bankruptcy [...]

The folk art will be offered by Conestoga Auction Co. Inc. of Manheim at a two-day catalog sale May 5 and 6. The auction also will feature American Indian items, baskets, stoneware and painting, furniture, and more than 250 lots of decoys.
The decoys will be sold at the first session, beginning at 6 p.m. May [...]

The vehicles will be sold by Martin Auctions at its 35th annual spring carriage auction, set to begin at 9 a.m. today and tomorrow at the Lebanon Valley Expo Center in Lebanon. More than 350 will be offered, including antique, used and new coaches, carriages and sleighs.
In addition, riding and driving appointments and antiques will [...]

The U-S General Services Administration has been contracted to conduct an online auction of U-S Forest Land in Northern Arizona.
The G-S-A has scheduled a May 30th opening date for the auction of 175 acres at the Verde Ranger Station Administrative Site in Camp Verde.
The property will be offered as four parcels, consisting of 119, 40, [...]

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eBayyer
Approximately $4,000 in photography equipment stolen from a Troy University lab has been recovered, and a student has been found to be responsible for the theft.
According to Bob Joslin, director of the photography department, a Troy University student has confessed to stealing the equipment from an unlocked lab in Malone Hall on April 12.

Paintings by Picasso and van Gogh, whose works have set world price records, lead the annual spring art sales at New York auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s starting next Tuesday.
The highlight of Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern-art sale — expected to generate overall sales of $142 million to $197.7 million — is Picasso’s “Dora Maar with [...]

Press Release
Under a cooperative arrangement between Asset Preservation Inc. (API) and J.P. King Auction Company, the use of auctions will be offered as a way to accomplish the sale of properties within the 180-day exchange period required under 1031 regulations.
“Reverse and improvement exchanges are extremely powerful tools that provide benefits to investors through tax deferred [...]