On the way to my book launch party last week, a friend mentioned that her friend decided not to monogram her new Goyard bag, as is the normal practice for this particular designer handbag. Why? Because it would be more difficult to sell it on eBay down the line. It makes sense. […]

Chinese portal Sina has agreed to sell a 33% stake it takes in 1Pai, an online auction website in China, to the leading e-commerce website Alibaba.com, sources were quoted as saying.
Alibaba.com spokesperson said the two sides will ink an agreement in the afternoon of January 23. Nonetheless, some details like exact transaction value will be […]

Press Release
In March, 1792, twenty-four of New York City’s leading merchants met secretly to discuss ways to bring order to the securities business and wrest it from their competitors, the auctioneers. On May 17, 1792, these merchants signed a document called the Buttonwood Agreement. It was named after their traditional meeting place – a buttonwood […]

An unemployed Reno man jailed last week on fraud charges allegedly made his living from cashing checks mailed by eBay bidders who thought they were purchasing his laptop computers, Reno police said.But authorities allege David Kazish never sent the bidders the computers, nor did he intend to.He did cash the checks, police said, which totaled […]

A Man Utd club blazer worn by George Best is to be sold at auction.
The jacket was awarded to the star, who died in November, aged 59, when he played for the team in 1968.
He gave the navy blue jacket with club crest, to the landlord of the Trafford Hotel, Manchester, who kept it until […]

More than 1,000 pieces of Joe DiMaggio memorabilia, including the New York Yankee baseball legend’s 1947 MVP Award and a set of World Series rings, will be auctioned off by his granddaughters this spring in New York, organizers said on Monday.
The Joe DiMaggio Collection, which also includes personal items from DiMaggio’s marriage to Hollywood film […]

e-Bay, the 14-billion-dollar online auction giant, has carved a niche in the used automobile segment and is a hit among banks, fleet owners, corporates, banks and financial institutions who dispose or sell used vehicles like cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles.
A business to business (B2B) venture, e-Bay India sells over 250 vehicles per day across […]

Hilton Hotels will acquire the assets of Britain’s Hilton Group PLC in a deal valued at $5.7 billion in cash; the acquisition rockets Hilton to the position of the world’s largest hotel group, ahead of such rivals as Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and Marriott International Inc.

A recent auction of antique dolls held by Annapolis house Theriault’s yielded $3.5 million, the firm said this week, smashing its previous record.
The Lucy Morgan collection — 280 items meticulously assessed and purchased over 15 years by Morgan, a former medical supplies industry entrepreneur — sold to a worldwide audience of collectors, many of whom […]

Turners Auctions plans to hold live auctions online as internet sites such as Trade Me continue to make inroads into the car sales market.
Called “Turners Live”, the service will be launched to trade customers within five weeks and rolled out across Turners’ 16 nationwide public auction sites during the next three months.
It won’t replace live […]