The Royal New Zealand SPCA has expressed outrage at a hoax posting on the ‘Trade Me’ website, offering a dolphin for sale by auction.
According to the posting, made from West Auckland, the dolphin was being kept in a swimming pool after being accidentally caught in a net during a weekend fishing trip.
The SPCA describes the […]

When it comes to online auctions eBay dominates the scene. In a bid to escape the shadow of its more dominant competitor eBid.co.uk, which declares itself the second largest player in the UK market, has announced a one-off special offer.
eBid Gold Memberships - which provide free listing and closing fees for life - will be […]

Online auction company eBay is facing court action over claims it allowed contact lenses to be sold on the site.
The General Optical Council claims people buying lenses online risk serious eye problems because they do not receive the necessary checks.
By law, lenses must be sold by a registered optician or doctor.
But eBay said contact lenses […]

Canada - A 1939 Lancia Astura custom built for wartime Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is to be auctioned on the Internet this week, the Italian language Toronto-based daily Corriere Canadese reported Wednesday.The car is described as “an immaculate representation of Italian engineering featuring a four speed manual transmission powered by a massive three litre […]

Furniture, paintings and art from the Monaco apartment of diva Dame Shirley Bassey is to be auctioned in London.
The 18 lots - which include a faux leopard-skin Louis XVI style salon suite - will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s on Wednesday.
The veteran performer is selling off some items so she can redecorate her apartment, […]

QXL is running online auctions to raise money for a new fund to provide aid to Tsunami struck villages in memory of the late Robin Needham, a celebrated senior aid worker for CARE International. After an appeal by 20-year-old Edinburgh University student, Daisy Bell, niece of Robin Needham, artists and celebrities including Seve Ballesteros, Sol […]

Online auction site eBay stands accused of violating Australian
fair trading laws when it used competitors’ business names as
keywords in search engine advertisements.
Internet users searching Google for GraysOnline, an Australian
auctioneer and eBay rival, were shown sponsored links to eBay’s
website. Google allows its advertising customers to pay for their
website links to appear adjacent to regular search results […]

The media division of theglobe.com (OTCBB:TGLO), which publishes Computer Games Magazine and Now Playing Magazine, today announced the launch of its new auction-based Web site GameSwapZone.com.The site is one of the first of its kind offering gaming enthusiasts anywhere in the world an opportunity to buy and sell games for Xbox, PSP, Game Cube, N-Gage, […]

AuctionIndex, an online auction search index, is a powerful new tool to direct users to the exact web sites they want with the help of keywords.
“There are so many auction web sites out there today, and more coming up by the day,” says Alan Lewis, the owner of AuctionIndex (available at http://www.auctionindex.net). “With AuctionIndex, buyers […]

Russia’s state-run diamond company, ALROSA, sold over $25 million in rough diamonds at a four week international auction ending on September 22, the company said in a press release. The company’s tenth special-size rough diamond auction was organized in conjunction with the Diamond Chamber of Russia. Representatives from 38 companies were […]