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Archive for May, 2006

Buying from a car auction

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

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 […]

EBay users ‘need to be streetwise’

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

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 […]

Bonhams Sporting Legends sale

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Full Sale Details at Bonhams.com
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 […]

Oxford Students put Bodleian Libray and books on eBay UK over debt protest

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

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 […]

Guinness World Records Fastest auctioneer set to retire in September

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

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 […]

Private Collection of Lord Belstead at Bonhams

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

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. […]

Ex-Fleet Cars On eBay UK

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

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 […]