Bonhams
A rare 1943 Rolex 3525 Oyster Chronograph watch purchased by Prisoner of War C.J. Nutting, a Corporal in the Royal Corps of Signals in the British Army during the Second World War, will be sold at Bonhams & Goodman in Australia on 11 September 2006. This follows the auction house’s world record-breaking sale of a [...]

Cricket Australia says it has cancelled more than a thousand Ashes tickets that have changed hands on the popular online auction site eBay, but will not disclose which seats have been targeted.
The move came after unprecedented demand for Ashes tickets meant the tickets sold out quickly after they went on sale in June and soon [...]

Escala Group Inc., a collectibles company and auctioneer, said Monday it sold $17.6 million of rare coins and other collectibles at auction during the World’s Fair of Money in Denver.
Bowers and Merena Auctions, a part of the company’s Spectrum Numismatics division, conducted the coin sale between Aug. 16 and Aug. 19.
Shares of Escala, which have [...]

One of Brett Whiteley’s largest works has fetched $2.04 million at auction – a record price for the Australian artist.
The four-metre-long Hummingbird and Frangipani, painted by the late Whiteley in 1988, sold to a private Victorian collector at the Sotheby’s auction in Sydney.
Craig Ruddy’s controversial Archibald-winning portrait of Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil also went under [...]

EBAY faces a possible class action from disgruntled Australian sellers pushed out of business after the online auctioneer jacked up its merchant and other fees by as much as 500 per cent.
An online forum lists at least 250 Australian-based internet stores that have closed since the US internet auction giant hiked its fees last Monday.
The [...]

US Auction Info
Hundreds of eBay Inc. merchandisers say they have closed their online storefronts, and some took their listings elsewhere, in the wake of a controversial fee increase eBay began charging earlier in the week.
The exodus was expected after eBay raised the amount it charges to run an online store. By raising store fees an [...]

AuctionInfo.org
Traders using a new Internet online auction site will be allocated free shares in the New Zealand company that runs it, in a concept billed as a world-first.
The brainchild of colourful Christchurch businessman and entrepreneur Brooke McKenzie, the new site goes live at 1pm next Tuesday.
Unashamedly following the huge success of Trade Me, the privately-funded [...]