Press Release
PropertyRoom.com, the largest and most popular online auction site for legally recovered property, today announced that it will begin accepting payments for completed auctions on behalf of all merchant sellers listing on the site.
The new payment option, which works like a traditional escrow service, represents a significant step in buyer and seller protection [...]

With consumer debt and credit card payments at record levels, more Americans every day cannot afford their car payments.
The US Government does not have the facilities to store these vehicles, as well as other property seized from criminals and felons, so by law it must dispose of the vehicles and property at public auction.
Until [...]

This weekend’s Frontier Times Western Auction in Austin, Texas, offered a variety of items, but none as strange as a 50-million-year-old piece of dung.
The Austin American-Statesman said, as of Saturday, the fossilized crocodile refuse, known simply by auctioneers in attendance as “the turd,” had not been sold despite its unique nature.
Also up for bid at [...]

Ornate currency produced by banks around the country became obsolete virtually overnight when the federal government started printing money in quantity in the 1860s. So did the intricate printing plates used to make it. Now, hundreds of the hand-engraved metal plates, many hidden in storage for more than 150 years, are going on the auction [...]

The assets of fallen hedge-fund manager Kirk Wright fetched about $2 million at an Atlanta auction yesterday – a small fraction of the more than $100 million the Bronx native is accused of bilking from roughly 430 investors, which included several NFL stars and his own mother.
“We’ve got somewhat of a thankless job,” said Scott [...]

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At a time when eBay is facing slower growth and greater competition, particularly from Google, the online marketplace giant recently announced the departure of one of its top execs and guiding forces, as well as a reshuffling of managers.

In the next two weeks, FEMA officials will begin regularly auctioning trailers that have been returned to the agency’s 172-acre staging site in Purvis.
The auctions, held by the federal General Service Administration, will be conducted online. Similar trailers in Florida have been auctioned for as much as $14,700 and as little as $1,500. The funds [...]

A retired physician is putting up his ten-piece brown leather sectional sofa on online auctioneer eBay, the same piece of furniture that Elvis Presley slept, ate, and watched TV on.
Donald Huttner said the sofa was housed in his condo in Vail for about 10 years, during which Presley and his group visited there in 1975 [...]

Classic Car Auction Info
A 1927 Bugatti Type 35C, expected to bring $2 to $2.5 million, which would be the highest sale price for a Bugatti Grand Prix car sold at auction, will most likely pace the bidding in what should be a record total at this year’s Gooding & Company Pebble Beach Auction, the culminating [...]

Evansville resident Carly Cresswell-Watson is advertising the bag of air on the Internet auction site eBay to draw attention to the region’s air pollution.
“I wanted to do this for my little environmental group — five or six ladies who get together to try to solve environmental problems down here,” said Cresswell-Watson, who moved to Evansville [...]

On Friday, July 29th, at the Ox Ridge Hunt Club in Greenwich, Connecticut, the company will host an unusual sale featuring fine Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motor Cars and automobilia.
One of the most anticipated events on Bonham’s schedule is an important part of the annual Pebble Beach Classics at Monterey, California. In 2005 it will host [...]

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The eBay bonding company buySAFE, Inc. is expanding its service to individual retail Web sites.
Merchants who qualify to use the buySAFE seal pass the buySAFE business inspection, which ensures the merchant is trustworthy and committed to delivering on the terms of the sale. These retailers can then display the buySAFE Seal on item listings, which [...]

Press release
uBid.com Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: UBHI), whose newly formed subsidiary DIBU Trading Corp., today announced the purchase of certain assets of the online auction company, Bidville, Inc. (OTC BB:BVLE) which includes the company’s customer file, brand name, URL and related online auction technologies.
DIBU Trading Corp. paid an undisclosed amount to acquire primary Bidville assets [...]

Press release
Escala Group (Nasdaq: ESCL), a global collectibles company in stamps, coins, and art and antiques, today announced Teletrade(R) will add certified paper money to its auction of certified coins scheduled September 10, 2006, and currency will become a regular and recurring collectible category at future sales conducted by Teletrade. Teletrade is America’s largest telephone [...]

Online auction house eBay shut down a sale after police investigators determined a teenager was trying to sell part of a jail uniform he claimed were worn by a convicted killer.
The auction page offering Elkhart County jail pants purportedly “worn by the `Corn Field Killer’” was shut down Monday before receiving any bids, police said.
After [...]