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Archive for July, 2006

eBay announce Gallery Plus

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Gallery Plus, the new listing upgrade , is now available. Take advantage of Gallery Plus to:
Showcase your listing using a larger Gallery image within the search results page.
Help draw more attention to your item and further increase its exposure.
Enable buyers to see a larger image of your item as they browse through categories and search […]

eBay’s enforcement rules

Monday, July 31st, 2006

EBay’s enforcement policies include 150 rules covering everything from copyright infringement to counterfeit items to failing to pay fees. The company put its policies in clearer language, created tutorials to help users learn the rules and made punishment more flexible.
The initiative was started after eBay executives decided that safety on the site — where fraud, […]

Bonhams no reserve sale back by popular demand

Monday, July 31st, 2006

With sale season in full fling, bargains are to be found at Bonhams Knightsbridge on 16 August when an entire sale of pictures and frames will be offered with no reserve. This will be the third such sale to be held at the Knightsbridge salerooms in Montpelier Street, SW1.
James Mackie, Head of Bonhams’ Pictures department […]

Lost master piece by Scottish colourist rediscovered by Bonhams

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Bonhams - Headlines
A lost masterpiece by Leslie Hunter, one of the Scottish Colourists, has been rediscovered and will be offered as an extra lot in Bonhams’ Scottish Sale on August 24th. The picture is expected to make £150,000-200,000.
Dr Chris Brickley, Head of Bonhams Pictures in Scotland says : “This is an example of how the […]

Surge in online auction sites spending

Monday, July 31st, 2006

APACS, the UK payments association representing card companies, has released 2005 e-commerce figures, which reveal an increase in online spending at auction sites.
The figures show that 14 per cent of the 34 million adults who use the Internet (4.9 million) made their most recent purchase from an auction site in 2005. There were 79 million […]

The Irish Times buys MyHome.ie for €50 million

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Irish Auction Info
The Irish Times Ltd, publisher of The Irish Times, has announced that it has bought MyHome.ie, the leading Irish online property portal. The deal values the business at up to €50 million, comprising an initial payment of €40 million and an additional payment of €10 million deferred over a five-year period.
The deferred payments […]

Premier Motorauctions to open in Birmingham

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Premier Motorauctions, which has been based on a single site in Leeds since its formation in 1996, has snapped up a former P&O container storage base in Birmingham for £8.2m.
Keith Elliott, the company’s managing director, predicted that the Birmingham site, which is close to the M6, could be turned into a car auction by March […]