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While many commentators like to use listing counts or item counts to judge relative sizes of the various trading websites in competition with eBay we've decided to create a list of the most popular auction and stores venues according to their indexed presence on Google. (02/05/2009)

Representatives of the buying and valuation department of Stanley Gibbons Ltd will be on the road during March at various locations around the UK. (02/05/2009)

Moneybookers have issued a press release confirming they will be an officially recognised worldwide payment provider on eBay.com. The press release says [...] (02/05/2009)

On February 8th 2009, Artcurial - one of France’s premier auction houses - will conduct an auction of “Classic and Racing Cars” in Paris. Bidders anywhere in the world will be able to bid live online through Artfact’s next-generation bidding platform, Artfact Live! Not ready to bid $1 million for a car? You can still enjoy watching all the action on the auction floor in real time using the Artfact Live! platform. (02/04/2009)

Sotheby’s recent auction sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in London saw 22 works realise a total of £32,564,300 ($46,238,050). The sale was 75.9% sold by lot and 67.7% sold by value and it saw two works command prices in excess of £5 million, and six for more than £1 million. (02/04/2009)

An original illustration by Jesse Willcox Smith, one of the famed Red Rose Girls of the Brandywine School of American Painting, will lead the March 12-13 Signature Illustration Art Auction at Heritage Auction Galleries. (02/04/2009)

For many Nevada business owners the recession is causing a drop in sales and an inability to grow or maintain their businesses. As a result many are being forced to liquidate their equipment for cash, according to Auction Systems Auctioneers & Appraisers, Inc. of Phoenix, Arizona. (02/04/2009)

Sotheby’s March 17th sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art in New York will feature a tightly-curated selection of ceramics, paintings, and sculpture of the highest quality, from a number of distinguished American private collections. Superb lots from The Gordon Getty Collection will be included, among them three pieces of fine Qianlong mark and period porcelain and a remarkable and highly unusual ‘Figures and Landscape’ automaton. Property from the sale, which is expected to bring in excess of $4 million, will be available for viewing from March 13th. (02/03/2009)

Followers of the Small Business Computing website have apparently voted Bonanzle as the best eBay alternative of 2008 leaving more established websites such as Etsy, eCrater and Wigix trailing. Here is the low down we've received at Pheebay today [...] (02/02/2009)

Despite poor figures for the final quater of 2008, emphasized by the sparkling performance of Amazon, eBay's CEO John Donahoe appears inexplicably hell bent on trying to turn eBay in to just "another" retail website and risk the unique P2P marketplace that the San Jose giant had cornered and should be trying to capitalize on for many more years to come. (02/02/2009)

The film contains clips of John, Paul, George and Ringo and their entourage whilst staying at The Four Seasons Hotel in St Fillans on the banks of Loch Earn during the Beatles 1964 tour of Scotland. (02/02/2009)

Putting the rights and wrongs of strike action to one side, I want to say why I believe the UK Government must address the grievance of the Lincolnshire Refinery workers quickly and effectively to avoid an escalation of labour relations tension at a time our country can least afford it. (02/01/2009)