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The highly successful online-auction franchise, Auction it TODAY, www.auctionittoday.com, recently announced that it has sold over 100 stores since franchise sales began in May 2005. To date, Auction it TODAY has 106 stores in 12 states.
“Our franchises have expanded quickly and successfully because we carefully control our growth process,” states John Hoose, Auction it [...]

Five ibidders placed 29 bids in the eBay Inc. auction that ended Thursday evening. The winner of the auction was identified only by the eBay user name “fastisslow.”
Proceeds from the auction go to the Glide Foundation, which provides social services to the poor and homeless in San Francisco.
The winning bidder will be able to take [...]

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-Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc., a leader in automotive total loss and specialty salvage services in the United States, today announced that the company has purchased the assets of Gardner’s Insurance Auction in Missoula, Mont. The location is IAA’s first in Montana and will service total-loss claims throughout the state of Montana and will support [...]

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RM Auctions, North America’s premier collector car auction house, is honored to present the legendary 1958 Ferrari 412 S race car at the 2006 Monterey Sports and Classic Car Auction on Saturday, August 19, 2006 at the Portola Plaza Hotel in Monterey, California. This one-of-a-kind racing Ferrari, one of the [...]

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Higgenbotham Auctioneers International announced today that Mackinaw Crossings, a 52-unit boutique style shopping mall will be sold at auction on Monday, August 7th at 6:00 p.m.
Established in 1996, Mackinaw Crossings, with its shopping and entertainment venues has become the lynch-pin of Mackinaw City’s developmental success. The city, which had been known for [...]

The two-day auction netted $10.5 million for the Cincinnati Museum Center – more than twice the pre-sale estimate of $4.5 million.
On June 7, the center announced it was putting the 900-book Cornelius J. Hauck collection on the auction block because it didn’t fit into the center’s local and regional focus.
The wealthy Hauck was heir to [...]

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It will cost more than half a million dollars for a successful bidder to dine with Warren Buffett, with bidding for that privilege in an online charity auction on eBay Inc. now reaching a record $500,100.
Buffett, the 75-year-old chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Charts), will dine with up to eight people, as he has since [...]

Shares of Univision Communications Inc. (UVN.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the No. 1 Spanish language broadcaster in the United States that put itself up for sale earlier this year, fell nearly 3 percent on Monday amid doubts surrounding the company’s messy auction.
One bidding group unraveled last week, with three large private equity bidders dropping out and [...]

The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management hosted an adoption auction this past weekend at Flickerwood Arena in Jackson, about 100 miles south of St. Louis. But of 70 horses and 11 burros available, only 16 animals were adopted.
At a similar event two years ago, nearly all of the horses and burros were [...]

A rare and valuable book collection, which includes one volume estimated at between $600,000 and $800,000 (USD), will be auctioned at Christie’s (June 27) and Wednesday.
The auction, called “The History of the Book,” comprises the collection of Cornelius J. Hauck who was the heir to a Cincinnati beer brewery fortune. The collection had been [...]

A Charlie Chaplin hat-and-cane set sold for nearly $140,000 at auction on Sunday, according to a spokeswoman for Bonhams & Butterfields.
The $139,250 bid broke a record for the most ever paid for a Chaplin hat-and-cane set, of which there are several, said Bonhams spokeswoman Janelle Grigsby.
She would not say who purchased the items.
The bowler hat [...]

Classic Car Auction Info
Craig Jackson, president and CEO of the Barrett-Jackson Auction Co., LLC., has captured the Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” award for the Business Services category in the Arizona/Orange County region. Jackson, the only individual in the car collector auction community to have earned this honor, was recognized for his leadership [...]

As a buyer you are trying to find bargains i.e listings with the best price (Buy It Now Items) or listings with the fewest bids (Auction Items). Generally these listing are the ones that get the least amount of visitors, and most of the time it is because of missing keywords (Product Serial, Manufacture Name…etc) [...]

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Edward Forbes Smiley III always made a selling point of his single-minded pursuit of the world’s most precious maps. The American antiques dealer boasted to clients that he was “very aggressive” in his buying method.
But the true extent of the urbane antiquarian’s bullishness was only confirmed on Thursday when he pleaded guilty to [...]

Morehouse College President Walter Massey says Martin Luther King Jr.’s alma mater will receive the more than 10,000 handwritten documents and books from the King estate that have been housed at Sotheby’s auction house in New York.
The collection, which had been valued by Sotheby’s at $15 million to $30 million, had been scheduled to [...]