Buying a used car this way can be the riskiest method because your usual legal rights may not apply if the seller issues a disclaimer, such as the term ’sold as seen’. The auctioneers are allowed by law to alter the conditions of sale, usually doing this by taking away buyers’ rights under the Sale [...]

BBC News
The man in charge of fraud-busting at internet auction company eBay is under no illusion as to the scale of the challenge.
“There will always be the dodgy guy in the trench coat,” concedes Garreth Griffiths, head of Trust and Safety for eBay in the UK and Ireland.
“This is one area where there will [...]

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With football fever mounting for the World Cup and the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship just a few weeks away, Bonhams has a lot to shout about with its June Sporting Legends Sale, featuring football, tennis, cricket and rugby memorabilia and ephemera.
Bonhams is pleased to present the press with a unique opportunity [...]

Cheeky students put Oxford University’s Bodleian library and its entire stock of books up for sale on Internet auction website eBay in a protest over debt.
The historic building and its contents have a reserve price of £189m the estimated student debt incurred by Oxford’s 11,000 undergraduates.
Bids were up to £10m by yesterday afternoon before eBay [...]

One of his claims to fame is as one of the fastest auctioneers in the world – and he has a certificate from Guinness World Records to prove it.
Another is that the business he has run every Saturday market in Swaffham for the last 50 years has been a magnet for customers from all over [...]

Bonhams
This July Bonhams will sell the contents of the Old Rectory at Great Bealings in Suffolk, the former home of Conservative minister and former Leader of the House of Lords, Lord Belstead. The sale, which includes an important collection of paintings by landscape artist, Edward Seago (1910-1974), is expected to raise in excess of £400,000. [...]

AutoQuake Ltd has signed agreements with three major leasing companies – each of which disposes of up to 10,000 cars annually – to sell their cars on to private customers. AutoQuake operates entirely on eBay, and puts its cars through HPI verification as well as conducting visual and mechanical checks before making them available for [...]

A new car reverse auction website, AutoeBid.com, has made it possible for car buyers to view and sort cars by their C02 rating. For every car purchased via their system where the buyer has specified the campaign code “ICEBERG”, AutoeBid will pay Climate Care to offset three tonnes of CO2 – equating to the emissions [...]

The sale of a luxury yacht that former Yugoslav dictator Tito used to entertain international politicians and celebrities such as Winston Churchill and Elizabeth Taylor has been postponed following legal action by its last owner.
The Galeb, or Seagull, was once a famous flagship of the Yugoslav navy and one of the world’s largest yachts. It [...]

A website, apparently set up by a disgruntled eBay customer, is being investigated by police.
The writer behind the website claims to have been sold a faulty laptop by a 19-year-old student and shows pictures which the writer claims, he found on the laptop.
Amir Tofangsazan has become the talk of internet chatrooms and the site has [...]

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.
The sales of paintings, sculptures, icons, porcelain, arms and Faberge works open today at MacDougall Arts Ltd. with an auction the company estimates may fetch 5 million pounds ($9.4 [...]

MFI has appointed investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein to auction its 200-strong chain of stores in a move to break up the group, which also owns Howden Joinery, the builders’ merchants, according to a report in The Business. A sale of the stores may lead to the disappearance of the famous MFI brand, which started [...]

Only months after shutting down five European auction sites, Yahoo said it will develop co-branded auction sites in Scandinavia with QXL Ricardo.
The deal with QXL Ricardo to establish the sites in Norway, Sweden and Denmark follows Yahoo’s decision in May shut down its auction sites in the UK and Ireland, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. [...]

Chipsaway, the car dent repairer, has banned one of its franchisees from selling his concession on eBay, and rewritten its rulebook so it can never happen again.
The company acted after The Daily Telegraph revealed franchisee John Hopkins was trying to sell his membership on the internet auction site.
The company, which offers a door-to-door service for [...]

Auction Info
A first folio edition of plays by William Shakespeare is on display in Hong Kong on May 25, 2006, ahead of its auction in London. The book is thought to be the best preserved that have ever been put up for sale and has an estimated worth of 35-49 million HK dollars.