UK Auction Info
A man who went to pay for a car he had bought on eBay was robbed at gunpoint by the person selling the car, according to reports.
23-year-old Shahzad Ali Shah from Crawley, West Sussex, was told by the seller of a Mercedes Benz Kompressor C180 that a cash purchase would be neccessary, the [...]

Bahrain’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has published details for an auction of two fixed wireless service licences, which will come at a starting price of more than $50,000 each, according to local media reports. Successful bidders will be able to provide voice telephony and Internet connection using wireless technology. An official invitation to take part in [...]

Military-ruled Myanmar plans to sell more than 1,300 lots of jade and gems this week in an auction that has become an important source of revenue for the junta, official media said yesterday.
The sale will include 312 lots of gems and 1,029 lots of jade, apparently making it about half the size of the last [...]

US Auction Info
Two luxury homes, a travel center and an airport formerly owned by Patterson-UTI chief financial officer Jonathan (Jody) Nelson will be among 24 seized properties being sold at auction Sept. 28-30.
The properties, which were seized as a result of embezzlement charges against Nelson, will be sold in a series of four auctions in [...]

Canada’s antitrust watchdog obtained a prohibition order against Sotheby’s international auction house and its Canadian unit following a probe into international price-fixing, the body said on Monday.
The Competition Bureau obtained the order from the Federal Court of Canada, barring Sotheby’s and Sotheby’s Canada — based in New York and Toronto, respectively — from agreeing with [...]

EBay shares rose 3 percent in premarket trading on Monday after it announced it has struck a deal to have Google handle its Web search advertising outside of the United States.
The two companies also plan to join forces on a “click to call” service that would let buyers click a link to speak directly [...]

UK Auction Info
CITIGROUP, the world’s largest bank, has made it on to the shortlist of bidders for London City Airport, pitting it against a number of high-profile rivals. The bank is bidding for the airport – owned by Irish financier Dermot Desmond – through its infrastructure fund .
The US bank is a strong contender due [...]

UK Auction Info
Twenty-one watercolors and sketches attributed to Adolf Hitler will be sold by a British auction house on September 26, officials said Friday.
The drawings were made when Hitler was a soldier serving in Flanders during World War I, said Ian Morris, auctioneer at Jefferys Auctioneers at Lostwithiel in Cornwall in southwest England.
The images, mostly [...]

Traders using a new Internet online auction site will be allocated free shares in the New Zealand company that runs it, in a concept billed as a world-first.
The brainchild of colourful Christchurch businessman and entrepreneur Brooke McKenzie, the new site goes live at 1pm next Tuesday.
Unashamedly following the huge success of Trade Me, the [...]

UK Auction Info
The final possessions of Syd Barrett are to be auctioned in Cambridge later this year, it has been announced.
Amongst the items set to go under the hammer are pieces of artwork from the Pink Floyd founder, some signed, which have never been seen before.
Also up for sale are his bikes, which were hand [...]