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Archive for March, 2008

Torbuy new charity auction website

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Voluntary groups in Torbay have come together to set up a new charity auction website.
The site, called Torbuy, will enable charities and voluntary groups to sell goods online and keep all of the profits they make.
The site is the brainchild of the Torbay Change Up Consortium, a group representing local charities and local branches of […]

Personallyyours.co.uk opens up an online number facility

Monday, March 31st, 2008

For twenty years personallyuours.co.uk has been supplying private number plates to thousands of customers. These customers have been so satisfied with the service and the company that many keep coming back for more. But there is a new type of personalised number buyer who demands different ways of buying number plates; this is why personallyyours.co.uk […]

Federation Against Software Theft Clamps Down on eBay

Monday, March 31st, 2008

FAST has started 17 auction piracy actions against individuals selling counterfeit software via eBay by the Software and Information Industry Association in the US.
“It does not take a rocket scientist to work out that software that should cost upwards of £100 that is being sold on an auction site for a few pounds is likely […]

Picasso to be sold at Dorchester auction

Monday, March 31st, 2008

A watercolour by Picasso depicting the artist and one of his first girlfriends, goes on sale at auction next week, along with works by the British painters George Stubbs and Alfred Munnings, on on April 10.
The paintings were discovered stacked up against a wall in the bedroom of a house in the West of England.
Guy […]

Cumbrian nuclear bunker sold for £182,000

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

A nuclear bunker in a Cumbrian field has been sold for £182,000 - more than double its guide price.
The former Royal Observer Corps bunker at Bell Mount Farm in Skirsgill near Penrith, was auctioned on Thursday.
At 15ft (4.6m) deep, it was used until the 1990s to monitor radiation levels in the event of nuclear attack.
Bruce […]

Charles Gordon-Watson accused of owing £2.7 million to auctioneers Tattersalls

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Polo-playing bloodstock agent Charles Gordon-Watson is heading for a High Court showdown with auctioneers Tattersalls, who accuse him of failing to pay £2.7million for horses he has bought.
Mr Gordon-Watson, who is joint-master of the Cottesmore hunt, was the highest bidder for three mares, thought to be in-foal, at Tattersalls’ Newmarket sale last December, according to […]

Bibliophile Sale including Conjuring and Magic

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Bloomsbury’s Bibliophile sale with its distinctive orange cover (3rd April), is particularly noteworthy for its strong Conjuring section. Last year Bloomsbury had a whole sale dedicated to Magic books which attracted magicians from all over the country; the wires were humming with bids from the United States and Europe.
Unrelated to conjuring, but no less magical, […]