Online Auction News, Opinion & Forums

As eBay appears to be becoming less popular for the smaller hobby traders for their stamps, postcards, coins and other collectibles a truly international success story has emerged in Delcampe that merits consideration. (07/23/2008)

What’s that I hear you say? “Not another auction site?” Quit groaning, sit up and pay attention. (07/23/2008)

Collectors of canes from far and wide should take note of the collection being sold by Kimball Sterling at 10am EST, August 9th, in Johnson City, Tennessee. Absentee and eBay Live bidders can take part. (07/22/2008)

A recent announcement by eBay in the UK has outlined another significant change, this time to the way poor performing sellers will be dealt with in future. If successful, this change may be adopted on other eBay sites around the world. (07/21/2008)

Following the news that eBid has broken thru the million listings barrier in the US and the UK, the company has revealed that completed sales on the site surged by 25% month on month from May to June. While listings growth can flatter to deceive, strong sales growth at any eBay alternative is worthy of note. (07/21/2008)

Toy collectors from around the world are in for a real treat with two significant collections of vintage toys set to be auctioned by Bonhams & Goodman over the coming weeks. (07/19/2008)

Hotel manager, Sean Denny, is urging people to break the bank in his bid to raise funds for Oxford’s new cancer centre. Sean , who works at the Randolph Hotel, in Beaumont Street, Oxford, has a target to raise £8,000 at a charity dinner and auction tonight. (07/17/2008)

Seven paintings by Ronnie Kray dating back to the early 1970s are to be auctioned by Mander Auctioneers of Clare, near Sudbury, UK on 26th July. The paintings were produced while the notorious gangland leader was in jail on the Isle of Wight. (07/17/2008)

A very rare and collectible example of John Arrowsmith’s important Map of Texas, published in 1841 when Texas was an independent republic, is to be sold at auction by PBA Galleries in San Francisco on July 24th, 2008. (07/17/2008)

The Phoenix and Consolidated Glass Collectors’ Club would like to announce their 16th Annual Convention to be held July 24 through July 26, 2008, at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. (07/17/2008)

On Thursday, September 25, 2008, the best of Tinseltown will gather at Hotel Bel-Air for the first annual blingthing.org Celebrity Jewelry Auction to raise money for scholarships to youths pursuing an education in the arts. (07/17/2008)

Worldwide collector car fans will flock to Las Vegas in October when the Barrett-Jackson Auction Company hold their auction and lifestyle event at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino for the first time. Hundreds of desirable collector vehicles will be sold at No Reserve auction in the Mandalay Bay Events Center. (07/17/2008)

Reading the auction blogs and forums lately you could be forgiven for thinking eBay was now in a corporate hospice staring at an imminent death brought on by a severe case of user critisism. But a Pheebay member offers a different outlook... (07/16/2008)

Four snake pit tickets right in front of the stage are up for auction for this once in a lifetime concert at Madison Square Gardens featuring not only the reunion of The Police but special guests the B-52s also. (07/15/2008)