A Cheltenham man who was auctioned on eBay to raise money for an Aids charity has been visiting the people he was aiming to help.
Sisters Victoria and Olivia Randell offered a date with their father Ernie on the internet site last month.
The sale raised £205.01 for the Nuru centre in Tanzania where Olivia works as [...]

The online auctioneer eBay has admitted that personal accounts are being hijacked by fraudsters, but claim it is the responsibility of eBay users themselves to prevent this.
Criminals are obtaining the secret passwords of eBay subscribers and using their sites to conduct bogus auctions for non existent goods.
In a growing number of cases, would be buyers [...]

On Thursday 29th December 2005 (GMT), sellers listing in Auction-style, Auction-with-Buy It Now or Buy It Now-Only (Fixed Price) formats in an eligible category, will pay 5p insertion fee regardless of the insertion fee bracket.
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Two decanters of rare whisky are being auctioned by a Norfolk-based magazine team to raise money for charity.
Malt whisky was collected from several distilleries by Whisky Magazine for the Make Poverty History campaign.
The spirit was created to mark the 20th anniversary of Live Aid and is at least 20 years old.
One decanter will be auctioned [...]

eBay is banning the use of money transfer providers such as Western Union and MoneyGram in a bid to prevent online fraud.
The auction site is working with the Metropolitan Police, and from mid-January it is unlikely that any police investigation will take place into eBay fraud cases where a money transfer service has been used.

Royal Dutch Shell’s attempt to auction its bottled gas business is hanging in the balance after bids came in at around €1billion (£685m) lower than the oil major expected.
Royal Dutch Shell’s attempt to auction its bottled gas business is hanging in the balance after bids came in at around €1billion (£685m) lower than the oil [...]

Manchester-based gaming company, Million-2-1, is offering the chance to bag the Christmas gift of a lifetime – a Ferrari 430 or £100,000 cash.
To be in with a chance of winning, players must take part in a reverse auction, an interesting concept that could scoop them the car or the cash for just £1.50.
Players text any [...]

eBay has dropped plans to facilitate sales of live pets on its site after thousands of eBay members attacked the move as irresponsible.
The online auction company posted a notice on its discussion board on Friday asking members to weigh in on the plan. The notice said eBay planned to launch a live pets classified service [...]

Thousands of pounds worth of sex toys and lingerie are being sold off at auction after one of the UK’s largest sex shops failed to pay off a debt.The shelves were cleared at the Hustler Hollywood sex shops in Birmingham and London after Sherforce High Court Enforcement Officers were authorized to seize the goods.Alan Smith, [...]

eBay has implemented their new ‘Safe Payments Policy’ on eBay.co.uk, however they have not suggested when they will actually be enforcing this policy, whereas in the USA, they have a defined date of the January 15th 2006 and given sellers a full 3 months to update their listings where required! Understandably this has caused confusion [...]

The Royal Mail is expecting a boost to its bottom line following a sharp rise in the number of parcels it is handling from internet retailers such as Amazon and eBay.
The new business is expected to be worth several million pounds in revenue for Royal Mail, which has undergone major restructuring and sacked more than [...]

Dance me to the end of Love, described by critics as his most famous painting after The Singing Butler, has already set the art market alive with some experts predicting it could even smash the £750,000 record for one of Vettriano’s works.
The artist’s last beach painting, it will be auctioned in Edinburgh next March, but [...]

The Metropolitan Police has joined forces with eBay to offer consumer education about how to stay safe when trading online.
eBay is also banning the use of money transfer providers as a means for paying for transactions on eBay.co.uk, a move welcomed by the Met as a way of reducing the risk of online fraud.
Detective Chief [...]

The proceeds of a controversial auction of council assets have topped £2.51 million – hundreds of thousands of pounds more than estimated.
Thirty three properties went under the hammer at the sale at London’s Langham Hotel on Monday.
Council leaders have hailed the sale which will help pay for major projects in the borough, as a success, [...]

The ban on live poultry sales is likely to be the final nail in the coffin of Henley’s livestock market—that’s the warning given out at the market’s annual pre-Christmas Turkey sale on Wednesday.
For the first time in Henley Auction Sale’s history, no live birds were sold following government action in the light of the Avian [...]