North Yorkshire trading standards officers recently found 11,298 counterfeit video titles displayed on eBay by 269 people.

Children as young as 13 are able to buy knives, alcohol and prescription drugs over the internet, according to a survey published today. Trading standards officers found that some of Britain’s best known retailers are failing to make basic age checks before sending off lethal weapons in the post.
The study also found that counterfeit goods [...]

Poultry producers in Wales say their businesses are at risk following a ban on bird sales and shows to lessen the potential spread of avian flu.
Chris and Gene Taylor, who run one of the biggest auctions for breeders in Wales, said the ban cut trading by 80%.
“Birds are our livelihood,” said Mrs Taylor, who runs [...]

eBay has announced that it was going to follow suit in Britain by banning payments through Western Union, as is being done on their US site, eBay.com.

eBay addicts have helped turn around the fortunes of the Royal Mail with a huge increase in the volume of parcels now sent through the post each week.
The surge in eBay traffic in the past two years has led to a two-thirds increase in business at many post offices across the country.
Of 100 post offices [...]

An auction of Beach Boys memorabilia was canceled Thursday after representatives of the band told the auction house the items had been stolen from a North Hollywood warehouse.
The band’s record company learned of the auction planned by London-based CooperOwen when the items appeared on the Internet, said Edwin McPherson of Brother Records, the band’s corporate [...]

London Irish became the first of the 12 Premier Rugby clubs to have its shares admitted to trading on ShareMark – 29th October.
More details at Irish Auction News

One of the world’s most famous cars, the turquoise Ford Anglia used in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, has been stolen from outside a Cornwall film studio.
Devon and Cornwall police said they were keeping an open mind about whether the car was stolen to order for a collector, or was taken by an [...]

The Welsh Rugby Union is to take action against four more Welsh rugby clubs – over the sale of tickets to internationals on an online auction.
They are Loughor, Pontllanfraith, Narberth and Abercrave.
Rugby authorities in New Zealand and Australia are also being asked how some of their allocations ended up on sale.

A StrongARM powered prototype Acorn Network Computer has surfaced on an online auction house. The kit, known as a ‘Fast NC’ or ‘Office NC’, is being sold off by ex-Acorn engineer Piers Wombwell, who used the unreleased machine to port Java to RISC OS.
The NC, which has been gathering dust in Piers’s attic, is essentially [...]

A celebrated painting by the Scottish colourist, Samuel John Peploe, sold for close to half a million pounds in Edinburgh yesterday.
The £433,600 for Pink Roses, Fruit and Books on a Polished Table was the third highest ever paid for the artist at the auction house, Christie’s, and the fourth highest for a Scottish painting.
Night Moves, [...]

One of the world’s greatest ever footballers sold his kit for more than £100,000 at auction today to help in his battle with terminal illness. Hungarian and Real Madrid legend Ferenc Puskas who is desperately ill with Alzheimer’s in a Budapest hospital was forced to sell off his medals, including the golden boot he was [...]

A BIDDING war is brewing after a cup of the nation’s favourite drink was offered for sale on the internet.
Even Billy Gibbons of Audlem near Nantwich in Cheshire thought it was a crazy idea to offer a `Nice Cup of Tea’ to the highest bidder on eBay.
But he has already had offers from 11 tea [...]

Calling on the Government to outlaw the sport’s black market by treating touts who sell international tickets as criminals. The move came on the day officials launched an investigation into how Welsh international tickets allocated to the New Zealand Rugby Union and seven Welsh clubs ended up on internet auction site eBay. Paul Sergeant, Millennium [...]

A teenage conman who swindled eBay customers out of thousands of pounds now wants to advise the internet auction site on tackling criminals.
Phillip Shortman, 18, of Pontypool, south Wales, was sentenced to 12 months’ detention in May this year after duping customers out of £45,000, but he now claims to have “turned over a new [...]