German decorator Matthias Blume said on Monday he had relaunched the bidding process for the name tags of the 32 World Cup finalists used in the televised draw after receiving bogus offers. Blume, who found the slips of paper in a rubbish bag while cleaning up after the draw in Leipzig on Dec. 9, said bidders must now register with passports before making offers. “We had to cancel the auction because some of the bids were not serious,” Blume told Reuters.

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Posted: 12|30|05 at 3:50 pm. Filed under: Auction News.