Using eBay is fine, but it can leave a lingering feeling that it could all be done with a little more class. The UK’s first internet auction house, www.luckners.com offers another option, with their five-stage process from valuation through to placing the item online taking no more 24 hours. Recent wares include a Mies van […]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday chose not to intervene in a long-simmering dispute about whether a French censorship order can apply to Yahoo’s U.S.-based Web site.
The justices, without comment, denied a request by French activist organizations to address the topic.
In January, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed Yahoo’s case involving the online […]

Australian Auction Info
Memorabilia and paraphernalia from Melbourne’s Commonwealth Games will go under the hammer at Port Melbourne today.
More than 600 lots will be up for sale and the auctioneer, Richard Crago, says many of the items are unique.

UK Auction Info
Three London auction houses are offering 19th- and 20th-century Russian art worth as much as $51 million this week, a month after New York sales broke records.

Car Auctions
Car auctions are a good place to get good a bargain on cars. But buying cars from auctions can be very complicated. This is particularly true for the uninitiated. Of course the cars in auctions are generally cheaper. But they are cheap because they lack the guarantees that come with cars bought from […]

Rameshwar Broota has created waves at Christie’s first auction of international modern and contemporary art in Dubai. Broota’s painting, Numbers, has swung a tag of $912,000. Curiously, the sale value vaulted over the pre-sale estimate of $80,000-120,000. In the same breath, eight Indian artists carved out record prices at the auction.
At the same time, […]

Auction Info
A Tokyo man has been arrested on suspicion of defrauding at least 160 people out of about 13 million yen by posing as a seller on an Internet auction site that he accessed using stolen IDs and passwords of registered participants.
Arrested Thursday by a joint investigation team of Gunma and Aichi prefectural police […]

Tobacco sales were suspended two weeks ago following a wrangle between buyers and sellers over low prices.
President Bingu wa Mutharika directed, when he opened the tobacco market, that lower grade tobacco be sold at a minimum price of US$1.10 per kg and US$ 1.70 per kg for high quality leaf.
But buyers irked farmers when they […]

Senior officials connected with the group of ministers on spectrum feel that airwaves that carry voice and data signals should be auctioned just as FM radio licences were sold. Officials said as spectrum is a scarce resource, it would make sense to auction it instead of just allocating it.
Much of the spectrum is with […]