New guidelines will help councils get the most from e-auctions after they’ve been shown to cut the cost of goods and services by as much as 50%.
Published by the Regional Centres of Excellence Procurement Programme, ‘How to be successful in e-auctions’ aims to share the latest best practice and legal advice with local authorities.
Steve [...]

Courtney Smith, 36, of Anderson, Ind. made 4,149.97 in 32 auctions conducted in 2004– the retail value of the software sold was more $700,000, so eBay once again lives up to its reputation as a place for bargain hunters.
In England, criminals never get to be called “Mister” by the newspapers. The US’s Department of Justice [...]

COLLEAGUES, clients and fellow professionals gathered in the Guildhall in Salisbury earlier this month to mark the retirement of chartered surveyor and auctioneer Roger Trubshaw.
Mr Trubshaw, who most recently was a consultant with Symonds & Sampson in Salisbury, notched up 48 years in the profession.
Valuing and auctioning property, livestock and farm machinery and implements were [...]

H&H, Europe’s largest specialist auctioneers of classic cars, motorcycles, bicycles and related memorabilia, has signed a landmark sponsorship agreement with the Vintage Sports-Car Club (VSCC), one of the most established and significant of all UK car clubs.
The multi faceted deal guarantees the auction house ongoing title sponsorship of a range of VSCC events. From hereon, [...]

AUCTIONEERS admit they have no evidence to back up a claim that 12,000 new jobs will be created over the next five years at BAE Systems.
It comes after it was placed on two auctioneers’ websites advertising Salthouse Mills, an old Barrow paper mill, which goes up for auction in London with a guide price of [...]

A 250-year-old book for 18th Century housewives is to go under the hammer in Staffordshire and is expected to fetch £800.
The book was discovered by Derbyshire and Staffordshire auctioneer Charles Hanson, director of Hansons and expert on BBC 1’s programme Bargain Hunt.

THE Venmore Partnership’s latest Liverpool auction has raised more than £8m.
Venmore’s sold 80% of a very broad catalogue of properties in its March auction, which was held at the Holiday Inn.
Everything from the vacant houses which are popular with investors, to small plots of land and secondary and tertiary retail units with accommodation above, sold [...]

Bumblebee Auctions, is where Police forces sell stolen and lost property.
The online marketplace is an extension of Virtual Bumblebee, which lists recently recovered antiques, jewellery and other valuables for burglary victims to reclaim. After an allotted time, property drops off this site and automatically goes up for sale on the sister auction site.
Police officer Tom [...]

Bonhams hopes to have the luck of the Irish on its side at its annual Motoring Sale at Hendon on 30 April 2007, when it sells a 1900 Argyll 5hp motor car, stored in a first floor Dublin flat for 45 years. Expected to fetch £60,000-80,000, this historic relic is just one of several vehicles [...]

PayPal, the Internet-based money transfer system owned by eBay Inc., is trying to persuade e-mail providers to block messages that lack digital signatures, which are aimed at cutting down on phishing scams, a company attorney said Tuesday.
So far, no agreements have been reached, but the idea is one that PayPal would like to see from [...]

Signed Pieces by Cartier, Bulgari, Vever & Van Cleef & Arpels
Precious jewels that exemplify some of the finest work from the 1900s to the present day by the greatest jewellers of the day, will be sold at Bonhams Fine Jewellery sale in New Bond Street on Thursday 19 April 2007. Signature pieces by jewellers such [...]

Nearly one in ten internet users in the UK fell victim to online fraud last year, losing an average of £1,001 each.
According to a survey, many failed to take basic steps to protect themselves online and fewer than half felt they were wholly responsible for their safety while using the internet.
The YouGov survey for Get [...]

Starcom has been awarded the UK media planning and buying account for upmarket auction house Sotheby’s.
The Publicis-owned agency took the brief in a final shootout against independent BLM. The review is being handled by the AAR. According to Nielsen Media research,

Saudi Basic , the largest public company in the Middle East, is lining up a bid for General Electric’s plastics division in a deal that could be valued at up to $12bn (€9bn).
Sabic has appointed Citigroup to prepare an indicative offer ahead of the first round of the auction in mid-April. The move underlines the [...]

Salthouse Mills is back up for sale through London auctioneer Erinaceous Auctions on Friday with a guide price of £2.25m.
It comes after it failed to sell during a similar auction run by Barnard Marcus with a guide price of £3m last month.
The property was originally priced at £6.5m just five months ago.
An online advertisement [...]