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 […]