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 [...]

Press Release
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 [...]

Bonhams New York is pleased to announce the February 13, 2007 sale of dog-themed paintings, décor and memorabilia, marking its 25th anniversary of sales within this collecting category. Previous auctions have garnered world record prices for depictions of “man’s best friend” and the 2007 offering includes works by: Thomas Blinks, John Emms, Henriette [...]

Press Release
Bluetooz®, announced today the registration of its 200,000th new member to its Free Local Online Auctions. Response has been overwhelming to the beta pre-launch of www.bluetooz.com. Bluetooz® had set a target goal of 100,000 new member registrations within the first 60 days but has doubled that membership count with 200,000 new members in less [...]

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Indianapolis is auctioning off two tickets to Super Bowl XLI . The seats are located in section 404, row two.
The bidding started at $2,000 and has already reached more than $4,500.
“We’re excited that Dayton Molendorp from One America has given us two tickets to the Super Bowl this [...]

A 1929 print drawing of the Chrysler Building by artist Hugh erriss was auctioned for nearly $15,000 yesterday, far higher than pre-auction estimates according to antique and estate auctioneer Jo
Farkas said the print was auctioned for $14,950 to a ”very respectable museum,” but he declined to release the name of the museum without checking [...]

In an act of protest against the Bay Area based company eBay, one eBay seller from New York City has put the Golden Gate Bridge up for auction.
An eBay by the name of gmajorspresents, is using the hypothetical sale of the bridge to illustrate what he perceives to be major flaws in eBay policy.
gmajorspresents calls [...]

A contract signed by John Steinbeck handing over “The Grapes of Wrath” motion picture rights to Twentieth Century Fox fetched $24,000 at a charity auction Thursday.
It and nearly 160 other contracts and papers signed by stars including Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn were donated by Twentieth Century Fox, a unit of News Corp.. The auction [...]

Real estate investors might take a gamble on some Treasure Coast properties at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood today.
Nine single-family homes in St. Lucie County and seven large vacant parcels in Indian River County will be auctioned at the Super Bowl Real Estate Auction at the casino.
Nicole Hollander, owner of by [...]

Sheriff’s Department officials have acted on a warrant issued by Santa Clarita Superior Court to arrest Ronald Walker, a man they believe is responsible for a series of eBay scams that duped six victims out of a total of $9,000.
Allegedly, Walker listed items for sale in the popular auction site, and once they sold, collected [...]