Memorabilia and paraphernalia from Melbourne’s Commonwealth Games will go under the hammer at Port Melbourne today.
More than 600 lots will be up for sale and the auctioneer, Richard Crago, says many of the items are unique.
“The memorabilia and the merchandise and some of the props from the ceremonies – the huge big mobile Blundstone boot [...]

About 2000 birds will be for sale at the Euroa Poultry Club’s third auction for the year.
Albury auctioneer Braham Metry said backyard chooks to show champions would be on offer.
“Birds will come from as far as Tasmania and north of Sydney,” Mr Metry said.
“We have an average of about 2000 birds plus incubators and poultry [...]

Sir Donald Bradman’s first Test cricket bat has sold for $58,000 at a sports auction in Sydney.
Bradman’s bat from his Australian Test debut in 1928 was the top item to go under the hammer at Cromwell’s Auction Group at Pyrmont.
The former batting great, who averaged a world-record 99.94 in 52 Tests between 1928 and 1948, [...]

UK Auction Info
A security guard who used hundreds of false identities to sell pirate DVDs on an internet auction site has been jailed for six months.
Peter Spencer carried on importing the fake films from Malaysia and selling them for £10 on eBay even after the auction site told him the scam was illegal.
An investigation by [...]

Most published information teaches buyers how to avoid scams. There isn’t much geared towards eBay sellers. So in this article we will discuss some common scams aimed at eBay sellers and show you how to avoid them. We will cover phishing – also called spoofing, counterfeit payments, fake escrow services, switching products and feedback extortion.

The wool industry is set for a major shakeup, with the Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) to abandon its auction rooms in Sydney and Melbourne and slash the size of its board.
AWEX will end its auction room leases at Yennora in Sydney and Brooklyn in Melbourne by the end of the year, handing the ball to [...]

Aboriginal art is estimated to be worth $12million a year at fine art auctions; some people estimate the overall market to be up to $200 million, when everything from craft to tourist tat is counted.
In this month’s budget, the federal Government almost doubled its funding for the Aboriginal component of the much discussed Quai Branly [...]