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 [...]