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Byline: John Irwin As used electric vehicles become common, the largest auto auction houses grapple with how to value a car after factoring in the gradual degradation of aged batteries, [...]

My article in the previous issue gave some tips on using the Internet Archive. I now continue with the theme of alternative information providers by taking a look at the [...]

Experience--there's nothing like it. And when it comes to Antiques Roadshow, the program's appraisers have many years of experience sitting 'behind the table' at events. This is the 11th year [...]

First there's the voice, that flat, crackly, affectless upper-class drawl: "The calla lilies are in bloom agayne--such a strange flowah. "Then there are the long, fluid legs. The planed cheek-bones. […]

When Simon de Pury needed a C.E.O. for his struggling Phillips auction house, he hired his millionaire girlfriend, Louise MacBain. Ten months later, after she warred with his partner, she [...]

DoveBid has built its fortune on the misfortunes that come with irrational exuberance--from the junk-bond scandals of the 1980s to the dotcom implosion. Here's how it gets the highest bidders--and [...]

The UK's two biggest auction houses, Christie's International PLC and Sotheby's Inc., are increasingly diversifying from their traditional activities to extend their slender profit margins. Both firms, which are now owned by businessmen from outside the UK, are involving themselves in more private sales, although both prefer not to describe this activity as dealing. They have also entered the cheaper and more popular end of the market, which includes small domestic items and pop memorabilia, and they have new staff departments, including taxation advisors and client hunters.

Christopher Burge constantly rehearses his voice for the biggest auction night of his collections. Picasso's Portrait de femme will be offered before 2,000 elite and art collectors at Christie's Park Avenue place. His vigorous and overwhelming voice is instrumental to the success of the bidding.

Sanjib D. Lahkar traces the growth and future prospects of the Guwahati Auction, a tea center that has shown tremendous potential in recent years. The Guwahati Tea Auction Centre completes [...]

Byline: Arlena Sawyers Manheim is trying to speed up the bidding and buying process for dealers who buy used vehicles listed on Manheim.com and OVE.com. In October, it began requiring [...]

Online Auctions for Business-to-Business Transactions. The Internet has dramatically changed the way business is being conducted today. According to predictions made by several research firms, the business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce [...]

The potential advantages of using internet auctions to buy rare or unique goods are discussed. The success of a consortium of auction houses, International Auctioneers, in selling items through simultaneous auctions is examined.

Revealing a flair more associated with East End traders than London's West End, the Knightsbridge auctioneer has carved a niche in areas as diverse as contemporary ceramics and rock ephemera. […]

Byline: Arlena Sawyers Manheim is launching a standard procedure for grading damage to vehicles it sells at its 90 North American auctions. The nation's largest auto auction company says the [...]

Byline: Arlena Sawyers Acacia Automotive Inc. wants to become a leading player in the vehicle auction industry. To that end, the new company has acquired its first auction site. Acacia, [...]

One of the biggest headaches a lender faces in foreclosure is when the borrower vacates the home, leaving the keys in the mailbox and no forwarding address; the lender or [...]

EBay Inc. has apparently rediscovered its E-commerce magic. The online marketplace took a key step toward putting a rocky six months behind it Wednesday when it announced record quarterly earnings […]

A bidder on EBay Inc. has won a power lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett for $351,100. The auction ended Thursday night and the winner was identified as "hanka3153." Bidding […]

EBay Inc. on Tuesday launched an online forum for open-source developers interested in accessing source code for various tools and sample applications for adding EBay services to web applications. The […]

A lot can be learnt from one of the most successful companies on the internet TEN years ago, Pierre Omidyar, a software engineer working in California's Silicon Valley, began thinking [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--Web marketplace eBay Inc. said Tuesday that its site was temporarily down worldwide Monday evening due to a power outage at a primary hosting facility in the San […]

SAN JOSE: Ebay is bringing top executives to the front lines of a PR effort to calm angry users threatening to boycott the site. The online auction site recently increased [...]

Amazon.com Inc. and EBay Inc. have lost some ground with customers, as the two Internet giants struggle to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction, while also expanding product lines […]

Following complaints, eBay has announced a new policy regarding use of racially offensive terms in its listings. Racially offensive terms may not appear in descriptions of items, as some sellers […]

The PR team at auction website eBay helps to build the company's global brand image by placing an emphasis on telling users' stories and backing up the site's marketing initiatives. [...]

The boom in used sales continues apace at Manheim Auctions. Manheim Auctions reports that its January-March sales were up by nearly a third on last year's figure. National HGV and [...]

After a slow start, it turned out to be a good year for Manheim Auctions, but the company is not about to become complacent. It's certainly been a good year [...]

PARIS -- 'In the West, contemporary art is a thing for the super-rich or the super-intellectual,' says Takashi Murakami, while overseeing the installation of his first major European exhibition at [...]

UAW elects Gettelfinger president The United Auto Workers elected UAW Vice President Ron Gettelfinger president, succeeding the retiring Stephen Yokich. Gettelfinger, 57, is the union's eighth president and is eligible [...]

PARIS -- Pierre Berge is closing down one house and constructing another -- of a different sort. And could he have an artful revenge in mind? Yves Saint Laurent's couture [...]

With new leaders and a chic new look, the auction house stands ready to challenge Sotheby's and Christie's at the top of the market. Next month, when the sales of […]

Here's another Oscar statuette director Steven Spielberg may want to consider saving from commercial exploitation. Butterfields Auctioneers will put the 1945 "Best Score" Oscar -- awarded to George Martin Stoll [...]

Joanna Badami Joanna Badami Appraisals I'm an independent appraiser of antiques. I'm ethically obliged to tell clients what an item is worth and how to sell that item. Independent appraisers [...]

With CEO Meg Whitman at the helm, eBay has become the lone star of the Internet economy. Now she has set a goal of $3 billion in revenues by 2005--a [...]

Even during the present slowdown, networked companies are outperforming conventional ones. They are likely to go on doing so. When Cisco Systems announced a $2.2 billion inventory write-down in the [...]

A table piled high with chile peppers and giant grails of sangria was nearly enough to divert guests' attention from the roomful of paintings by Diego Rivera, Joaquim Torres-Garcia and [...]

NEW YORK--This year's DECOR expo--New York boasted something new--a pavilion dedicated entirely to fine and decorative art at Pier 94. The organizers of DECOR expo, who acquired art21 Productions last [...]

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--From $300,000 Toulouse-Lautrec posters to $400 Russian movie posters, the 3rd Annual Southern California International Vintage Poster Fair, held in Santa Monica in January, had something for collectors [...]

MAASTRICHT, Germany--From its start in 1988, TEFAF, which stands for The European Fine Arts Fair, has always been synonymous with quality. Seasoned show attendees and exhibitors say there are few [...]