Specialist poultry auctioneer Fabian Eagle sold more breeding birds yesterday as buyers were taking the avian flu crisis in their stride at the region’s biggest market.
“We had about 20 more cages of breeding birds entered for the sale than the previous week,” said Mr Eagle, who is East Anglia’s top poultry auctioneer.
There was an air [...]

Dublin-based James Adam & Sons, has become the first auction house in Ireland to introduce live internet bidding into art and antique sales, leading the way in auction information communication technology.
Working with online auctioneer specialists, Live Auctioneers in association with eBay Live Auctions, Adam’s is offering clients the first opportunity to view [...]

Internet auction site eBay should do more to tackle fraudsters targeting the site, a consumer magazine has said.
Computing Which? called on the site to be more active in identifying its fraudulent users.
It also wants the site to warn users about the danger of fraud and to crack down on the selling of medical accessories such [...]

Sir Elton John is selling one of his pianos on internet auction site eBay to raise funds for his Aids charity.
All proceeds from the sale of the grand piano, which he played during recent live shows and TV appearances, will go to the Elton John Aids Foundation.
Sir Elton will also autograph the instrument, which he [...]

National Grid, the British power company, is competing with Consolidated Edison of the US to pay as much as $US7 billion ($9.5 billion) to take control of KeySpan, the largest distributor of natural gas in the northeastern US.
According to people familiar with the matter, National Grid and ConEd, which is based in New York, have [...]

Two shirts seen in the hit movie Brokeback Mountain have been auctioned for more than €83,000.
A gay activist was the winning bidder in an online auction for the two used plaid shirts worn by the star-crossed lovers, played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, in this year’s Oscar front-runner.
The sale by the film’s distributor, Focus [...]

A son tried to auction his mother’s ashes on eBay – but the website banned the sale. Glen Beaton said Margaret, 72, had loved travel and appealed for people across the globe to buy a portion of her remains and scatter them. Mr Beaton, 44, of Inverness, Scotland, added: “I do not intend to profit [...]

The original copy of Ireland’s national anthem, written in 1907, may sell for as much as 1.2 million euros ($1.4 million) when auctioned in Dublin on April 12, said James Adam and Sons, which is handling the sale.
With words and music handwritten by Peadar Kearney on two pieces of paper, the anthem, known as the [...]

A number of historic documents including the original marching banner of the Irish Brigade in the American Civic War and a rare letter written by composer Elgar are set to be auctioned next week.
Labelled as “one of the most historic relics from the American Civil War to appear in recent times” the banner dates back [...]

Get it off your chest – That’s the message from the latest internet
forum www.slagitoff.co.uk
Put together with the aim of relieving stressed out, office bound web
surfers, the site allows members to “get things off their chest”.
“Many people have stressful jobs and lifestyles these days” reckon the
creators of the site. www.SlagItOff.co.uk is the perfect [...]

British art dealers must pay a higher rate of tax on works imported into the UK for auction, the European Court of Justice has ruled.
Until now auctioneers have paid a reduced tax of 5% on imported art to be sold at auction.
The ruling means they must now pay the standard VAT of 17.5%.
The UK had [...]

George Galloway’s attempt to auction the tracksuit top he wore on Celebrity Big Brother has been sabotaged by eBay users putting in “astronomical” bids.
The Respect MP, selling the garment to raise money for the Palestinian charity Interpal, removed it from the website after a bid of £150,000 was received.
Mr Galloway told the BBC News website: [...]

Adamstown, the biggest housing development ever undertaken in the State already has 12 potential buyers for each home.
The 550-acre 10-year scheme which will comprise of 10,000 homes when finished.
The first 330 homes in Adamstown Castle are set to be launched this Thursday, and Gunne auctioneers have claimed that they already have a database [...]

Ofcom, together with ComReg – the Commission for Communication Regulation in the Republic of Ireland – today announced proposals to award licences to use spectrum frequencies in the band 1785-1805MHz. This marks the first time the two regulators have adopted a coordinated approach to awarding spectrum to benefit businesses and consumers throughout the island of [...]