A Wood County jury took less than two hours to convict a Fostoria man of selling tickets to the 2005 Ohio State-Michigan football game, then leaving the buyers empty-handed.
Jurors found Mark West, 54, guilty of theft and telecommunications fraud for taking more than $161,000 from 250 people who ordered tickets through the Internet auction [...]

The online-payment service PayPal will simplify its user agreement and better inform users about fraud protection under an agreement announced Thursday with 28 state attorneys general.
PayPal said it already has removed links from its user agreement to make the document easier for people to read and print. During the payment process, PayPal now explains how [...]

The county will be auctioning off numerous items on Saturday, Sept. 30 in West Burlington Township, including a number of canoes and paddle boats, vehicles, and computer equipment.
The items are no longer needed by the county, said Nancy Schrader, chairman of the Bradford County commissioners.
The auction, which begins at 10 a.m, will take place [...]

A former Tumwater woman is on the run after Thurston County prosecutors charged her Tuesday in one of the biggest fraud cases in county history.
Sri Lankan native Shaniha Somasundaran allegedly took hundreds of thousands of dollars from people who responded to her eBay offers to sell gold coins. But in many cases Somasundaran never delivered, [...]

Press Release
“My gut feeling is that this is an authentic Pollock,” said Rich Ranft, chief auctioneer and president of Beloit Auction Service, speaking of a painting which will cross his auction block on October 25.
The painting in question measures approximately 7 ½ inches by 24 inches, is unsigned, and is accomplished in the drip [...]

Five former Sinclair gas stations were sold at auction here with total bids at $550,000, Higgenbotham Auctioneers said.
The bids are subject to confirmation by Sinclair Oil Corp. of Salt Lake City, which is getting out of retail gasoline sales in Montana and Idaho.
Three former stations in Great Falls were sold Tuesday, along with one in [...]

The 76-year-old Lightship New Bedford, one of a handful U.S. lightships remaining in the world, was put up for bid but got no takers as potential buyers grumbled about the conditions the city put on the sale.
The city said 20 historic artifacts – including the ship’s foghorn, beacon, mast and [...]

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Auction house Christies have announced that they will be running the first ever auction of memorobelia from the Star Trek TV franchise.
The auction coincides with Star Trek’s 40-year anniversary.
On sale will be the Starfleet uniform worn by Captain Kirk, or the Starship Enterprise-A model, considered the Holy Grail among Trekkies everywhere. Public viewing will [...]

The Arizona State Land Department is calling off this week’s auctions of two prime pieces of residential land, one in northeast Phoenix’s Desert Ridge development and the other in Fountain Hills.
The auctions weren’t worth the agency’s time because no builders or investors are willing to pay the appraised prices of $150 million for a parcel [...]

Indian art piece sold for $1.3 million in US AuctionInfo.org
At the Modern and Contemporary Indian Art sale held in New York on Wednesday, Indian Francis Newton Souza’s ‘Man and Woman’, 1954, realised 1,360,000 dollars – more than quadrupling its pre-sale estimate – and was bought by an Indian hedge fund manager, leading auctioneer Christie’s said.
“Reflecting [...]

The fate of one of the oldest operating racetracks in the country could be decided when the Tennessee-Georgia Raceway and Auto Auction will be sold to the highest and best bidder (or bidders) on Saturday.
The facility, located on the state line (literally) near Chattanooga, has been in near–continuous operation since the early 1950s, when it [...]

Property Auction Info
The giant insurance company MetLife wants $5 billion more in its corporate pockets and so has put the homes of 30,000 people up for grabs. After months of rumors and hints, the company announced it would sell its Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village on the east side of Manhattan for at least that sum.
The [...]

A 1920s-era 10-cent stamp containing an extraordinarily rare printing error sold at auction Friday for $74,000.
Keith Marsh, owner of The Stamp Center, which handled the auction, would not disclose the identity or location of the buyer, who submitted bid by telephone as almost 100 people gathered at Marsh’s firm looked on.
Marsh had expected the mint-condition [...]

Press Release
JJManning Auctioneers today announced it will conduct an auction of 44 properties in Naples, Cape Coral, and Marco Island, FL, on October 21 at 11am. Held in cooperation with local Florida broker Paul Drake, the auction will take place at the Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club and will feature homes, condos, and [...]

Sotheby’s first dedicated sale in New York of works by young Indian contemporaries, including works by Atul Dodiya and Jitish Kallat, fetched an astounding $1,818,780 – an all-time high.
The sale featured 58 lots by young cutting-edge artists in a variety of media and went far beyond the high estimate of $1.5 million.
Artists whose works set [...]