Trading standards officers are demanding tighter regulations for websites which sell food products after they found three quarters of food for sale on eBay fails relevant hygiene and packaging laws.
Investigators bought 89 products, 65 of which were unfit for sale in a British supermarket (73 per cent). Faulty labelling was the main problem of 51 [...]

eBay has hit back at claims from consumer magazine Computing Which? that suggest the company should do more to protect its users from fraudsters.
The magazine has said eBay shows too little interest in identifying fraudsters among its user-base and supported that claim with figures from the Metropolitan Police.
Jessica Ross, editor of Computing Which? said eBay [...]

ONLINE auction site eBay needs to do more to tackle fraud, a leading consumer watchdog has warned after a spike in the number of eBay related complaints to the police.
The Metropolitan Police said it is dealing with 130 eBay crimes a month, a number that Which? claims is mirrored across the UK.
According to the Police, [...]

Police are investigating an alleged scam in which household goods were stolen from a Bristol warehouse and sold from Devon via eBay.
Brabantia ironing boards, kitchen utensils and other goods valued at more than £10,000 and £5,000 in cash have been seized by police.
They seized the goods from houses in Barnstaple and Umberleigh.
The police believe they [...]

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has paid £30,000 at a charity auction for a family tree drawn by author JK Rowling.
Radcliffe, 16, who plays the schoolboy wizard on screen, bought a handwritten history of the family of Sirius Black, his character’s godfather.
Rowling donated the document to the sale by Book Aid International, which provides books [...]

An historic landmark with no reserve price was sold at auction for £330,000.
The disused water tower called “Jumbo” in Colchester, Essex was auctioned with planning consent for a penthouse flat.
Several schemes to develop the 131 ft landmark, which was taken out of commission in the 1980s, have failed.

Dublin-based James Adam & Sons, has become the first auction house in Ireland to introduce live internet bidding into art and antique sales, leading the way in auction information communication technology.
Working with online auctioneer specialists, Live Auctioneers in association with eBay Live Auctions, Adam’s is offering clients the first opportunity to view and bid online [...]

A HUSBAND has taken revenge on his former wife by putting revealing pictures of her up for sale on eBay.
The Welshman is selling 200 pictures at a time on the internet site because he says his ex-spouse cheated on him by beginning a relationship with his best friend.
He uses an eBay trading name that gives [...]

Online auction site eBay should take a tougher stance on tackling fraud, a consumer magazine has said.
Around 130 incidents relating to the website are reported to the Metropolitan Police each month, according to Computing Which?
The link to eBay’s Safety Centre should be made more clearly visible on the site, Computing Which? said.
Jessica Ross, editor of [...]

Specialist poultry auctioneer Fabian Eagle sold more breeding birds yesterday as buyers were taking the avian flu crisis in their stride at the region’s biggest market.
“We had about 20 more cages of breeding birds entered for the sale than the previous week,” said Mr Eagle, who is East Anglia’s top poultry auctioneer.
There was an air [...]

A CRICKET bat signed by Jack Hobbs has been bought by the father-in-law of another former England player.
He paid just under £3,000 for the bat, also signed by Hobbs’ team-mates during the legendary 1926 Ashes series.
Rowley Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers in Ely remained tight-lipped about the buyer, but revealed his son-in-law played for England [...]

Lost lyrics to three Cream tracks found in a shopping bag after more than 30 years are set to fetch around £80,000 in an eBay auction next month.

Sir Elton John is selling one of his pianos on internet auction site eBay to raise funds for his Aids charity.
All proceeds from the sale of the grand piano, which he played during recent live shows and TV appearances, will go to the Elton John Aids Foundation.
Sir Elton will also autograph the instrument, which he [...]

A new UK online auction site has opted to go up against the mite of eBay offering auctioneers the chance to bid for lots on their mobile phone. Huntforit.co.uk mobile texting service allows anyone on any network to bid for any item via text and earn 5 pence each time a text bid is sent [...]

LITTLE-KNOWN maritime portraits by famous Edinburgh artist Sir Henry Raeburn have been saved for the nation after being bought by Historic Scotland.
The paintings were bought for a “significant” but undisclosed sum from the Incorporation of Masters and Mariners, based in Trinity House, the Kirkgate, Leith.
Of the seven paintings, the most significant is of Napoleonic war [...]