Archive for May, 2009

Muscle Cars for Melbourne Classic Car Auction

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Australian Muscle Car collectors will be closely monitoring Shannons upcoming Melbourne Winter Auction on June 1, when three highly desirable limited-build vehicles will go under the hammer.
Ford fanciers will be particularly interested in the multi-award winning two-owner 1978 Ford XC Falcon Cobra Coupe (build number 392 out of 400) that has covered just 172,000km from [...]

Supreme Auction 5.0: the new version of the No. 1 eBay sales software

Friday, May 29th, 2009

“We design virtual showcases for eBay and present products so they will gladly be purchased! With millions of products online it is fundamentally crucial to rise above the competition in order to make good profits.” so Philipp Kraft, CEO of Supreme NewMedia.
What once started as an online flea market has now become a professional marketplace [...]

Irish Fly Tip painting Withdrawn from Auction

Friday, May 29th, 2009

A painting by the 19th century American artist Winslow Homer was pulled from a New York auction on 21 May, after a claim was made by one of the artist’s family.
The watercolour, Children under a Palm Tree, was presented to Sotheby’s auction house earlier this year after being discovered on the BBC One show.
It had [...]

Superman Costume Auctions for $27,000 in Australia

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Bonhams & Goodman has sold an original Superman costume worn by Christopher Reeve in its Melbourne salerooms.
The costume comprises a leotard featuring the unmistakable red and yellow ‘S’ logo, a pair of red trunks and yellow belt. The leotard has slits in the side through which cables were fed to suspend Reeve [...]

BigBidder.com® Opens Door to Secondary Market for Mortgage Notes

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

BigBidder.com® is a first-of-its-kind platform for the online auction of mortgage notes. BigBidder allows qualified investors and small investment groups to buy individual mortgage notes secured by real property from around the country, finally giving all types of investors access to this burgeoning market.
BigBidder is a game-changer. Historically, mortgages were bought and sold by Wall [...]

Tucows Commences Second Dutch Auction Tender Offer to Repurchase Shares

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Tucows Inc. a global provider of domain names, email and other Internet services, announced today that it is commencing a modified “Dutch auction” tender offer to repurchase up to 4,000,000 shares of its common stock, representing approximately 5.8% of the Tucows’ outstanding shares. The closing price of Tucows’ common stock on the NYSE Amex on [...]

Longcase Clock Achieves Auction Record in Sydney

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Bonhams & Goodman auction of Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts was held in Sydney on 9 May 2009.
The highlight of the sale was an early Colonial Australian cedar long case clock by James Oatley which sold for $336,000, smashing the previous Australian auction record achieved for a clock. This very important and desirable clock [...]

Online Auction Site Bills Itself as – The New Art of Shopping

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Combining the thrill of an auction, the convenience of the Internet and a unique business model, FantasticBid.com is making a name for itself in the online auction arena.
Unlike other online auctions, at FantasticBid.com an auction’s time limit is determined by the bidders, not by the auctioneer. Each auction continues as long as people are actively [...]

New Zealand Online Auction Launched

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Kiwi Owned and operated One Cent Bid (OCB) is another competitor in the new and exciting online auction space. However, unlike the others that have come to New Zealand, One Cent Bid is 100% Kiwi designed, developed, operated and owned.
The bidding systems typically employed by most of these sites has led to controversy in [...]

IronPlanet Auction Reports Record First Quarter

Monday, May 25th, 2009

IronPlanet® (www.ironplanet.com), the world’s leading online auction company for used construction and agricultural equipment, reported a record-breaking first quarter performance, with gross auction sales of $91.3 million — an increase of 26 percent over the first quarter of 2008.
“IronPlanet’s continuing record-breaking performance is a direct reflection of the value that our used equipment marketplace continues [...]




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