Seattle is selling five of its problematic public toilets on the popular auction site eBay, but you're going to have to have some serious cash to afford one."City officials decided to pull the plug on the...
A watercolour by the famous Beatirx Potter was sold at Sotheby's in London to a private collector for five times its upper estimate.The picture shows rabbits putting on their coats and kissing their rabbit host...
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To quote Ralph Wiggum: "It tastes like burning!" "One of Jimi Hendrix's favourite guitars, set alight on a London stage more than 40 years ago and thought to have been lost forever, is to be auctioned later this...
Previous article written about eBay paying $61 million to Fashion Companies over sales of fake Good can be read here.With the recent courtroom defeat of eBay, there is finally a reason for them to celebrate as they...
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Suge Knight's infamous Death Row Records has been auctioned to Global Music Group for a cool $24 million. The gives Global access to the label's extensive back catalog of multi-million selling rap records by artists...
I was a Rolling Stones rather than a Beatles fan so I did not buy any Beatle recordings until Sgt. Peppers was released."The iconic bass drum skin used on the front cover of The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt Pepper's...
I don't know who to be more outraged at - the parents at their "joke" or the legal system. I just hope that they get some counciling. " Published: 3 Jul 08 11:21 CETOnline: http://www.thelocal.de/12865/ The...
eBay Australia is dropping its efforts at forcing users to conduct transactions via its PayPal system in the face of user outcry and investigatino by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Meanwhile, the...
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I'm not sure how I feel about this. While I agree with eBay that "cutting out the middleman" can make products more appealing to users, in the long run if fraud is left unchecked it may also drive away buyers. ...
Jeff Koons's steel sculpture has sold at $25.7 million. His Balloon Flower highlights record-breaking art sale in auction history. "The more than 2.75m-tall chromium stainless steel sculpture, Balloon Flower (Magenta), which mimics a flower made out of a long...
What has a person got to do to keep a domain name? Apparently you have to bid against VP Alan Dicker, an executive of Domain Name Aftermarket (TDNAM). A couple hours ago, the insider bidding story appeared on...
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A Chinese investment fund manager has won a bid on eBay to have lunch with Warren Buffet. He paid $2.1 million for it!It is the most expensive chariy auction ever held on the online auctioning website.Who would you...
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"NEW YORK (Reuters) - An unused life jacket from the doomed Titanic ship sold for $68,500 in New York on Wednesday, Christie's auction house said. The cork-filled...
The craze for Titanic still remains quite high even after long time. The memorila also fetches a good price as is evident from the sale of this life jacket. "A life jacket from the doomed transatlantic cruise ship...
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Famous painter Claude Monet's water lily painting has set a new world record by fetching more than $80 million. One of his his earlier work was sold for $41.4 million. Monet created his water painting in his...