In Northern Ireland, TSS checked 26 locally based sellers on the eBay auction site.
As a result of this, searches under warrant were carried out at six private homes, resulting in the seizure of more than 600 counterfeit DVDs, computer equipment and quantities of counterfeit jewellery.
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eBay has enabled RSS functionality in all if its Stores. Store owners can activate the feeds for their sites, allowing buyers to keep up with new items being posted. Once activated, the RSS button will appear at the bottom of all of the Store’s item listings. In order to view the store updates, buyers need [...]

One of the rarest pieces of GAA memorabilia will tomorrow go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London, writes Ian O’Riordan
A winner’s medal from the first All-Ireland football final of 1887 is expected to make between £5,000 and £8,000, according to the auctioneers.
They say it has already attracted much interest. Several telephone bidders have registered [...]

A BBC Northern Ireland journalist is auctioning off three remarkable souvenirs from his dive to the final resting place of the Titanic for Children in Need.
Environment correspondent Mike McKimm travelled 12,850 feet to the wreckage lying in the icy waters of the North Atlantic, getting a fascinating glimpse of the ill-fated liner.
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Internet auction house eBay says it’s building a data center in Phoenix and hopes to have it open next year. The company says the center will house engineering and technology professionals and be the seventh such location in the nation.
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Hundreds of Kiwi rugby fans were fuming after being turned away from the All Blacks test against Ireland in Dublin yesterday.
A fire meant Lansdowne Road’s northern terraces had to be closed. The bulk of the 7500 ticket holders were Irish. But hundreds of Kiwis – most London based – were caught up in the [...]

BLACKSTONE, one of the world’s largest private-equity houses, is striving to build a £2 billion (€3 billion) frozen-food empire that would include internationally renowned brands such as Findus and Birds Eye. If successful, the group would also gain control of Heinz’s ready-meals factory in Dundalk.
The group, which has built up a portfolio of assets in [...]

Including Lorna Miller oil on board, £360; David Gordon Hughes oil on gold leaf, £360; Lisa Ballard, oil on board, £320; Liam Reilly oil on canvas, £250; Hugh McIlfatrick, oil on board, £250; J.P. Rooney, Irish Fishing Village, oil on board, signed £210; Tom McGoldrick, [...]

A Sefton Steeplechase Cup, Sheffield 1926 sold for £5200 while a pair of limestone Corinthian pillar plinths & busts went at £2800. A County Down Hunt’s Challenge Cup (Sheffield, 1918) made £2800 while an East Antrim Stag Hounds Cup (Dublin, 1905) realised £2600.
Other lots included: [...]

A quantity of railway signs were sold for £1,080 followed by a number of railway lanterns which made £780. An inlaid rosewood tol card table went at £380 while a duchess dressing table sold for £140.
Other lots included: telescopic dining table, £420; circular table, £350; quad bike £180; occasional table £120.
Bloomfields: five piece silver [...]

Four oil paintings by Glens artist Charles McAuley came under the hammer at £5,000, £5,000, £4,200 and £3,600. Another by John A Lomax made £4,200.
Oils by George Gillespie realised £4,600 and £3,400 while a Percy French watercolour was appreciated at £2,600.
Oils on porcelain by Melwyn Holloway ranged from £1,700 to £2,400.
A 19th century Killarney yewwood [...]

A charity art auction in aid of One in Four, the national charity that supports victims of sexual abuse, will be held this Friday at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. The pre-Christmas auction will feature some of the best of contemporary Irish Art with works by John Behan, Mike Bernard, Pauline Bewick, Stephen Cullen, [...]

The increasing popularity of auctions for property deals has led to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors launching a new guide to help buyers and sellers work their way through the process.
Called ‘Going Once, Going Twice, Sold To’, it is available at www.rics.org/propertyauctions or by contacting RICS on 0870 333-1600.
The RICS’s NI property spokesman, Tom [...]

A collection of part wall clocks went for £1,067 and a mahogany cased ‘wag at the wall’ clock made £380.
Other lots included: pair of mahogany beds, £210; oil painting, still life, £180; midshipman’s journal, HMS Orion, £160; duchess dressing table.

The Jack Packenham studio sale saw a 100% sell out with all 175 lots finding new homes.
‘Back to Reality’, an acrylic on board sold for £2,600 while ‘The Kite Flyer’ made £2,000.
Ken Hamilton Girl Reading, £4,500; Neil Shawcross, Still Life £2,800; 19th century mahogany miniature hunt table, £720; 4-piece silver tea service, Glasgow, £540.