A custom ukulele autographed by Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett sold for $11,211 Friday on the online auction site eBay.
He will donate all the proceeds from the auction to Children’s Hospital in Omaha.
The soprano ukulele is one of two designed to resemble a Dairy Queen ice cream cone.
International Dairy Queen is one of the more than [...]

Manheim recently acquired the Southwest Florida
Auto Auction in Fort Myers, Fla., making it Manheim’s 89th North
American auction location.
Warren Young, Jr., former general manager of St. Pete Auto Auction in
Clearwater, Fla., has been named general manager of Manheim’s Southwest
Florida Auto Auction.
[...]

Classic Car Auction Info
Collectors can really hit one out of the ballpark with a special vehicle offered by RM Auctions at its Dingman Ford Collection sale on June 9-11, 2006 in Kensington, New Hampshire. A cornerstone of the auction is a beautifully restored 1940 Lincoln Zephyr Continental Cabriolet formerly the property of George Herman “Babe” [...]

eBayyer
‘Buy It Now’ is one of the new reality shows set to air on ABC this summer.
The show will center around different families who put a variety of their prized possessions on eBay in the hopes of raising the proceeds to have some meaningful goal realized. “Buy It Now” will air twice a week. The [...]

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Press Release
Domain Name One, a domain reselling company, is offering two of the most rare and valuable keyword names, Sex.nr and Nic.nr for sale on ebay.com (item # 9730403630).
The recent explosive growth in online business has made in imperative for businesses to own a top domain name. Global branding and the rise of [...]

A painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $5.6 million, setting a new record for the artist and for a Latin American work of art at auction.
“Roots,” among Kahlo’s few full-length self-portraits, was sold to an anonymous phone bidder at Sotheby’s auction house Wednesday evening. The 1943 oil-on-metal shows the artist reclining in a [...]

Two US firms claim they will “revolutionise online procurement” with a system that uses artifical intelligence (AI).
The Puridiom system uses software from sourcing firm Procusoft in a programme the developers forecast will “shorten the request for quotations cycle by half”.
The firms say it is the first time an e-auction has been designed that lets vendors [...]

Press Release
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (TSX:RBA)(NYSE:RBA), the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, today announced the results of a two-day auction held at its permanent auction site in Orlando, Florida. This unreserved public auction, which sold over 2,200 items, generated gross auction sales in excess of US$39 million.
“We were pleased with the results of this sale,” said Gary [...]

An infamous local man`s house goes up for sale Thursday.
The property was a crime scene and home to a man now facing murder charges.
But Thursday morning as Hugo Selenski sits in prison, his home will hit the auction block.
The house is located at 479 Mount Olivet Road in Kingston Township. Prospective bidders took a look [...]

The opening bid for the entire courthouse started at $2,000. Finally, bidders raised in increments of $1,000 to $5,000.
After reaching $40,000, many bidders became spectators and others left the building, WISC-TV reported.
“It went slow, and I didn’t expect that. I figured it’d be a 10-minute auction, and that’s what it usually is,” said auctioneer Dean [...]

One of the jurors who convicted former Gov. George Ryan has been ordered to return notes she took during the seven-month-long corruption trial.
NBC5 reported that all the jurors were to return their trial notes.
U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer issued that order after the juror told a reporter she planned to sell the notes. [...]

Sweetbay Supermarkets and Office Depot are continuing their growth in the Sarasota-Bradenton market after making successful bids for shuttered Winn-Dixie stores sold as part of bankruptcy proceedings.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jerry A. Funk last week approved the sale of two area stores and 19 others in Florida, according to court records.
Office Depot bought a Winn-Dixie store [...]

StreamCast Networks, the makers of the Morpheus peer-to-peer software, alleges in a lawsuit against internet auction giant eBay is profiting from peer-to-peer technology that rightfully belongs to it.
StreamCast claim in a lawsuit filed to the U.S. Central District Court in Los Angeles on Monday that Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the pair that developed [...]

Sotheby’s Holdings, Inc. has amended its long-term senior secured revolving credit agreement with Banc of America Securities LLC (“BofA”) and LaSalle Bank N.A. (the “BofA Credit Agreement”) to allow for $50 million in additional commitments from its existing lenders. This increases the total borrowing capacity under the BofA Credit Agreement from $250 million to [...]

Beloit’s vacant courthouse is headed for the auction block tomorrow.
Rock County officials closed the courthouse in 2000 and moved court functions to Janesville to cut costs.
Supervisors considered upgrading the vacant facility to house county agencies but voted in 2005 to auction the building instead.
Dean George, whose auction service will conduct the auction, says it’s hard [...]