Overstock.com has discontinued its auction affiliate program. Overstock.com spokesperson Jared Matkin said the reasons for the program’s termination were the high rate of non-paying bidders that were generated by affiliate traffic, and that overall, the affiliate program was contributing roughly 1 percent of auction sales.

The first Rolls-Royce Phantom drophead coupé destined for the United States has been sold for $2–million at a charity auction during the annual Naples Winter Wine festival.
More than $1.6-million will go to the Naples Children and Education Foundation which supports charitable and educational programmes to improve the physical, emotional and educational lives of underprivileged or […]

The Worldwide Group auction house says the 1964 model Cadillac hearse will be on the block May 5th at the Houston Classic Auction in Seabrook, Texas. It transported Kennedy’s body from Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas to Air Force One.
Hearse distributor Ardeen Vaughan has resisted selling the JFK hearse for 4 decades. Now he’s planning […]

The state’s controversial corporate jet is slated to be posted back on Internet auction site eBay Monday evening. It’s the fourth attempt to unload the Westwind Two, which has sat virtually unused since former Governor Frank Murkowski left office last month.
The third attempt ended Friday evening with the highest bid at slightly more than 1.7 […]

Press Release
Stopol Auctions, L.L.C. — the leader in hosting and managing plastics industry auctions — will host and webcast an auction February 8, 2007, to sell plastics manufacturing equipment from discontinuing injection molding operations at Moll Industries, Inc.’s New Braunfels, Texas, plant.
Stopol Auctions will conduct a live auction at 9:05 a.m. (CST) February 8 at […]

Biodegradable packaging materials company EarthShell Corp has received approval from the bankruptcy court to auction its assets for at least US$1 million. The sale will take place on 7 March.
The company recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after saying that it could not meet its payroll and other operational obligations.
EarthShell says that one of […]

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Online real estate auction company, Freedom Realty Exchange, has recently launched an extensive campaign to sell by auction 15 homes in the resort community of Laughlin Ranch in Bullhead City, Arizona. This real estate auction marks the newest selling trend by home builders and developers finding themselves with surplus inventory in the continuing quiet […]