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Gall: RTC's disarray killed auction MIAMI -- Jim Gall's dream of autioning off the federal government's troubled real estate properties tumbled in a heap last week when, without notice, 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 [...]

Staff Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated recently set a company record when its Atlanta sale generated more than $24 million in gross auction sales -- the highest-grossing Georgia state auction in [...]

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 […]

Byline: Steven Cole Smith The working premise, we must explain, is that Craig Jackson, president of Barrett-Jackson Auction Co., is a little like P.T. Barnum, especially here at the 34th […]

Byline: Steven Cole Smith High-Wired auction action Barrett-Jackson has multiple auctioneers, but only five who work on the microphone, in shifts. The lead auctioneer, and the head of the Texas-based […]

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 […]

eBay has become AustraliaEs premier online auction site, with its low overheads and wide reach, having overtaken other similar Websites. Owners of two web stores on eBay discuss their commercial success, the high transaction fees charged by the Website, and the problems of online fraud.

Auction website eBay has told a company inviting bids for a mortgage to withdraw its advert from the site as it offers nothing for users to actually bid for. Fitzwilliam [...]

The bidding begins, the hammer sounds and everything must go. Simon Creasey captures the atmosphere at a King Sturge auction. Outside a warehouse in south east London King Sturge auctioneer [...]

Since its inception, the Internet has been likened to the Wild West, but a culture further along in its development would provide a more apt reference point: New York City [...]

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 […]

eBay's PayPal payments unit last week posted a job notice on CraigsList, the popular bulletin board, for a mobile payments expert, raising immediate speculation that it was about to launch […]

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. [...]

In recent years, eBay has exploded as 'the world's online marketplace.' Online shoppers can browse thousands of categories and make bids on everything from antique bookcases to toys. Now, small [...]

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 [...]

Bringing all facets of entertainment to one destination, eBay rolled out the red carpet for the launch of eBay Entertainment in September 2003. The online auction site offers new 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 [...]

Imagine walking into a call center where there are no calls, no voices, except brief conversations among agents and supervisors. Where there is no near-deafening din of talk; instead, you [...]

A good selection of potato and farm machinery went under the hammer at Baynhall Farm dispersal sale near Kempsey, Worcs, last week. FW went along to check it out Three […]

By Simon Wragg FARMERS hoping to save Northampton market have just three days to make a formal bid or the auction will close at the end of October, operators Northamptonshire […]

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 [...]

CRAVEN Cattle Marts, which runs auction marts in Skipton and Sedbergh, North Yorkshire, has taken over the lease at Masham Farmers Auction Mart, established in 1921 as a private limited [...]

LIVESTOCK breeders in Northern Ireland have been told their premier auction centre at Portadown is to close in June. The Automart venue has been sold for residential development. Automart was […]

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 [...]

TAUNTON Market Auctioneers, which operates from a town centre site, is in discussion with local councils about developing a major new agricultural centre near the M5 motorway. It is hoped […]

UNITED Auctions and Caledonian Marts have entered into a bitter exchange of words over the future of their auction sites in Stirling. Both organisations run live markets in Stirling from […]