Online Auction News, Opinion & Forums

I guess we all know B&W means Black and White and BNWT is Brand New With Tag but here we provide a lengthy, comprehensive and alphabetical checklist of the most commonly used abbreviations at online auction sites. (01/14/2009)

While a large number of sellers have made the break from eBay, all too many soon find themselves complaining of poor sales because they fail to realise and deal with the challenges of traffic generation. So whether it is now eBid, AtomicMall, Bonanzle, MilBid or any other auction or storefront venue, here are some tips to get the sales happening. (01/14/2009)

Heritage Auction Galleries are featuring the Texas Revolution in a forthcoming auction sale with the Alamo commander’s 1836 letter and Joseph Pulsifer’s early Texas Republic diary. (01/14/2009)

Currently being displayed in New York, a pre-sale estimate of £5-7 Million for Strassenszene (Street Scene) by the artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is one of the big draws for Sotheby's next London evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on Tuesday February 3rd 2009. (01/14/2009)

Marvel Comics are today releasing Amazing Spider-Man #583 which tells the story of how Spiderman thwarts a plot to disrupt Obama's inauguration. A limited number of Spider-Man comics with a picture of Obama on the cover are currently for sale on eBay for around $25 or so. (01/14/2009)

So you've built a great website, you are starting to build some traffic and now it's time to see if you can generate some regular income. Here are eighteen ways you can monetize a website. Not all the ideas will fit in with your plans but, if just one works, reading this article will have been worth it! (01/14/2009)

We've put together another list of auction related top level domain names that prior to publishing were all still available for anyone to register. (01/14/2009)

The City of Fernandina Beach near Jacksonville, Florida has been selling redundant city owned property on eBay to help fund city departments such as enterprise funds. (01/13/2009)

Continuing our series of posts highlighting internet domain names that have either expired or never before been registered. The following list of domain names were all available for anyone to register shortly before publication. (01/13/2009)

February 4th 2009 is the scheduled date for the next Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale by Christies. 47 works of art will be on offer including exceptional masterpieces by Monet, Modigliani, van Dongen, Vuillard and Toulouse-Lautrec. (01/13/2009)

We began using the current content management system to publish news and opinion articles on 17th January 2008 so, as the first anniversary approaches, and with well over 600 publications now done, what have proved to be the most popular items? (01/13/2009)

The anti-eBay bandwagon has been rolling along throughout 2008 and it remains to be seen if it will gather pace or slow down in 2009. But during this time we've all become used to hearing the term "eBay alternative" and you could be forgiven for thinking there are hundreds of alternatives now when in fact there isn't. (01/12/2009)