The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) is to investigate eBay after Privacy International lodged an official complaint about the company’s data retention practices.
Privacy International (PI) alleges that the auction site is deliberately making it difficult for people to delete their accounts, with the aim of bolstering customer numbers.
Under the 1998 Data Protection Act (DPA), firms are [...]

A rare 1943 Rolex 3525 Oyster Chronograph watch purchased by Prisoner of War C.J. Nutting, a Corporal in the Royal Corps of Signals in the British Army during the Second World War, will be sold at Bonhams & Goodman in Australia on 11 September 2006. This follows the auction house’s world record-breaking sale of a [...]

Elvis Presley owned a number of Cadillacs, but they rarely come up for sale in the UK. However, a 1960 Coupe DeVille owned by the superstar singer is going under the hammer at the H&H auction in Buxton, Derbyshire, on September 12th/13th. The pillarless coupe, DFO 301, is white with a salmon pink roof and [...]

MORE than 42,000 breeding ewes have been entered in the Welsh Mule Sheep Breeders Association sales from September 6 to 13 – an increase of nearly 3,000 compared with 2005.
The Welshpool sale will take place on September 6 and 7. While association members will be at the Royal Welsh Showground at Builth Wells on September [...]

A man who went to pay for a car he had bought on eBay was robbed at gunpoint by the person selling the car, according to reports.
23-year-old Shahzad Ali Shah from Crawley, West Sussex, was told by the seller of a Mercedes Benz Kompressor C180 that a cash purchase would be neccessary, the Daily Mirror [...]

Pictures of some of the world’s best loved fairytales will go under the hammer at a Cambridge auction house.
The Fine Art Sale at Cheffins includes several works by Edward Ardizzone, inspired by master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen.
Classics like The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling and The Snow Queen are brought to [...]

Private equity group Permira has acquired the former Unilever brands Birds Eye and Iglo, closing the auction with a £1bn bid.
Permira outbid CapVest, a rival private equity firm that owns FoodVest, the holding company behind Findus frozen foods in Norway, Sweden and France, as well as the UK’s Young’s Bluecrest Seafood.
Unilever took the decision to [...]

Caprice is planning to sell her car on auction website eBay, after being banned from driving for 12 months for drink-driving on Friday.
The 34-year-old was arrested in central London on December 10 last year and subsequently failed a test, which showed her to have more than the legal limit of alcohol in her blood.
The model [...]

Web search leader Google Inc. will supply online auctioneer eBay Inc. with Web search advertising outside the United States, and the two will join forces on “click-to-call” ads that link online shoppers to vendors, the companies said on Monday.
Paid search advertising lets marketers bid for ad space next to keyword search results.
EBay, whose shares were [...]

AN ancient Roman gold ring, supposedly found in a farmer’s field, is at the centre of a police investigation after it emerged the relic had been sold on the internet just weeks earlier.
Amateur treasure hunters Colin Hilton and Gary Moore claimed to have found the 2,000-year-old trinket buried six inches under the surface of a [...]

CITIGROUP, the world’s largest bank, has made it on to the shortlist of bidders for London City Airport, pitting it against a number of high-profile rivals. The bank is bidding for the airport – owned by Irish financier Dermot Desmond – through its infrastructure fund .
The US bank is a strong contender due to its [...]

Bonhams
A stunning collection of jewellery from Goldsmiths Hall’s recent exhibition ‘Precious Statements’ – which was viewed by over 6,000 visitors – is to go under the hammer at Bonhams’ Sale of Jewellery at Montpelier Street, Knightsbridge, London, on 13 September 2006. The exquisite work of acclaimed artist-jeweller John Donald, whose modern designs are currently enjoying [...]

Twenty-one watercolors and sketches attributed to Adolf Hitler will be sold by a British auction house on September 26, officials said Friday.
The drawings were made when Hitler was a soldier serving in Flanders during World War I, said Ian Morris, auctioneer at Jefferys Auctioneers at Lostwithiel in Cornwall in southwest England.
The images, mostly pallid landscapes, [...]

US Auction Info
Hundreds of eBay Inc. merchandisers say they have closed their online storefronts, and some took their listings elsewhere, in the wake of a controversial fee increase eBay began charging earlier in the week.
The exodus was expected after eBay raised the amount it charges to run an online store. By raising store fees [...]

Irish Auction Info
Alan Cooke, chief executive of the Irish Auctioneers’ and Valuers’ Institute, has pointed out, that a 1.1% monthly rise in house prices in July indicated yesterday still implied an annual increase of 13%.
The IAVI has predicted a ’soft landing’ for the housing market. Mr Cooke said the market was moving closer to equilibrium [...]