Selling at auction can seem every bit as daunting as buying, especially if you don’t know the item’s history or what it might be worth.
Finding out the value of your item
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Irish investors have been buying into grand designs at English football shrines. They have shelled out more than €100million for residential properties in developments at Highbury and Wembley in North London.
Property investors from Ireland are reported to have paid out more than £40million for a stake in the planned transformation of Highbury where the current [...]

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Only months after shutting down five European auction sites, Yahoo said it will develop co-branded auction sites in Scandinavia with QXL Ricardo.
The deal with QXL Ricardo to establish the sites in Norway, Sweden and Denmark follows Yahoo’s decision in May shut down its auction sites in the UK and Ireland, Germany, France, Spain [...]

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eBay and Yahoo! have announced they are forming a partnership centred on advertising, ecommerce and search.
As the internet search and commerce markets grow even more competitive, the two companies on Thursday said they have decided to help each other out.
As part of the deal, Yahoo! will become the exclusive third-party provider of all graphical [...]

Francis Bacon’s studies for a self- portrait, hidden in a private collection for more than two decades, will go on sale for as much as 5.5 million pounds ($10.3 million) in London on June 22.
Christie’s International is betting that the 1980 triptych painting, “Three Studies for a Self-Portrait,” will set a record for Dublin-born Bacon, [...]

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A letter from John Lennon denying that the Beatles “ripped off” black music fetched £12,000 at auction yesterday.
Dashed off on a piece of “American Airlines” headed notepaper, the letter was a response to a newspaper article accusing the Beatles of imitating and exploiting American black music in their early cover records.

Yahoo! Inc. and EBay Inc. formed a partnership for online search and advertising as the two Internet companies seek to challenge the dominance of Google Inc.
The accord marries Yahoo, ranked No. 2 in online search, with EBay, the world’s largest Internet auctioneer, and will be implemented in the U.S. by 2007, the companies said today [...]

The Odeon House on Eyre Square in Galway City Centre is expected to sell for between 10 – 12 million when it goes for sale by public auction on Friday.
The Odeon House, which looks out onto Eyre Square, is comprised of a multi-let office building and a large car park.
The car park is located at [...]

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Soccer fans are bidding thousands of euros for World Cup tickets online even though tournament organisers have warned that they risk being turned away at the stadiums.
For security reasons, tickets for the month-long tournament starting on June 9 are personalised with the buyer’s name and are not transferable except under special circumstances.

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Lloyd Maunder announced last month it was closing its lamb operations at Willand in Devon after losing an important supermarket account.
The 135 staff to be made redundant will finish work at the plant on Friday. Pro Auction Limited have been appointed to sell the assets at the factory by public auction on the [...]

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The government is considering plans to stage an auction of carbon credits that could raise hundreds of millions or even billions of pounds from industry as part of a shake-up of Britain’s role in the €50bn (£34bn) EU emissions trading scheme.
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) confirmed that an auction [...]

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SCOTLAND has appointed its first “eBay detective” as levels of fraud at online auction sites continue to soar.
Scott Rennie, a detective constable with Strathclyde Police, deals with dozens of complaints each month from Scots who are scammed on eBay and tracks down stolen items which are sold online.

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An unnamed person has successfully bid £103,000 for two tickets to attend David and Victoria Beckham’s World Cup party at their Hertfordshire mansion.
The celebrity couple will donate proceeds from the online auction to children’s charity the NSPCC.

Sotheby’s is staging its first sale of Irish contemporary art in the autumn. Sotheby’s Frances Christie, a specialist on 20th century British and Irish art, said Ireland’s showing at the Venice Biennale art festival was particularly impressive. She cited artists like Isabel Nolan and Stephen Brandes.

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eBay users have spotted this year’s first Big Brother auction on the site, offering a chance to win one of the ‘golden tickets’ that will let a member of the public into the house.
Although 14 attention seekers have already entered the Big Brother house, another place is being offered to those who find the tickets [...]