Botswana auctioned 44 tonnes of ivory today in a closed auction.
The auction is the second sale of elephant tusks this week approved by CITES, the international convention that governs trade in endangered species, after Namibia on Tuesday sold more than seven tonnes of ivory for 1.1 million dollars.
Conservation groups are angry over a decision to [...]

The first ivory auction in a decade sold more than 7 tons of tusks to, raising more than $1 million.
Most of the tusks came from elephants that had died of natural causes
Tuesday’s auction was monitored by Willem Wijnstekers, CITES Secretary General. In all, 7.2 tons of ivory were sold, fetching a total of $1.3 million.
Over [...]

FTI Consulting, Inc., has announced the launch of its new Auction Solutions practice. The new practice, which will be a part of FTI’s Economic Consulting business segment, will advise clients on auction design, bidding strategies, and related matters. Two of the world’s leading experts on auction design, Dr. Paul Milgrom and Dr. David Salant, will [...]

Two revolutionary business methods patents, which support the reshaping of the financial services industry, go on the auction block on October 30, in Chicago, IL. These patents cover a next generation payments platform for enhancing card processing and e-commerce to unleash new economic resources.
DualCurrency Systems of Minneapolis Minnesota announced that its two business methods patents [...]

WWA Group, Inc. has announced the successful conclusion of the most recent auction held at WWA Group’s Dubai facility during the period October 18, 19, and 20, 2008. Gross auction sales exceeded US$20.34 million. 1,392 items, was sold to 183 successful bidders.
Actual sale prices for all items sold at our auctions are published for members [...]

Diamonex Limited, last week commenced the auction of 10,000 carats, its first parcel of diamonds from its Lerala Mine.
“The diamond sale will allow DiamonEx’s Lerala Mine to join the very small list of producing hard rock diamond mines in the world, a list of less than 20 mines, and also make it the first independently [...]

This special auction of art from the Kraft Bretschneider Collection in Tübingen will focus on important German Informel works. The choice offering of classic post-war art is headed by Emil Schumacher’s “Mabudan”. Painted (1965) in oil with collaged canvas on canvas, this work carries an estimate of € 150 000-250 000. Measuring 77 x 179 [...]

An elephant ivory auction totaling over 19,800 lb (9,000 kg) will be held in Namibia. This is the first time in nearly 10 years that international trade in elephant ivory has been sanctioned by the UN-backed Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
The sales will continue over the next two weeks in Zimbabwe, Botswana [...]

Blackwell’s have announced a new interface for those businesses that find they are sitting on too much stale inventory, which allows for open and closed auctions.
Blackwells crafted an auction that would allow admission and viewing by password only for certain auctions.
1. Private. Clients must have Password to bid. Auction Viewing is restricted to those [...]

Sedo, today listed its record number of six and seven figure premium domain name sales for 2008.
The complete top selling list, which represents a wide variety of financial services, numbers, descriptive and two-character domain names, includes Invest.com: $1,015,000; Tell.com: $400,000; 770.com: $343,208; Tees.com: $252,500; OD.com: $220,000; OV.com: $200,000; Tests.com: $176,505; 248.com: $175,000; Sumo.com: $150,000; Revolution.org: [...]