PESA, the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance, announced it has joined forces with a group of eBay sellers in Australia to launch PESA Australia. The President of the new organization is Phil Leahy, Managing Director of Entertainment House, an Australian online retailer of music, DVDs and games, and a longtime PESA member.

Internet watchdog group ScamBusters today issued an urgent appeal for New Zealand´s biggest online auction site to improve its security procedures.
“A group of professional criminals based in Romania are targeting the site heavily at the moment” says spokesman Alf West, and it’s the increasing sophistication of these scams that worries the group.
“These guys are [...]

NEW real estate legislation has the potential to “completely kill” Adelaide’s currently thriving auction market, according to the Real Estate Institute of South Australia.
President Mark Sanderson said he feared some of the proposed changes - which include allowing only one vendor bid at auction and the compulsory registration of bidders - could destroy the industry’s [...]

The recent collector-car sale by Melbourne auctioneers Shannons took prices to record levels.
Top price among Australian-made cars was a record $140,000 for a 1971 Chrysler Charger R/T E38 coupe, followed by $120,000 for a 1969 Holden Monaro HK GTS 327 coupe.

An Australian man pleaded guilty to breaking into eBay and a local bank to steal AU$42,000 (about $34,000), in a case that demonstrates the problem of account takeovers on the auction site.
Dov Tenenboim, 21, of the Sydney suburb of North Bondi, stood accused of breaking into at least 90 different eBay seller accounts last year, [...]

AUCTION clearance rates are running high in Adelaide as both buyers and sellers turn to the age-old method of buying property.
The clearance rate of residential property has not fallen below 70 per cent for the past six weeks, with no sign of subsiding.
At this time last year, clearance rates were between 50 and 60 per [...]

The earliest documented piece of silver crafted entirely in Australia, attributed to one of the earliest documented Australian silversmiths, made for the first Governor of Tasmania, will be offered at auction on Tuesday 24 April, 2007 by Bonhams & Goodman. The piece, a commemorative silver pepper caster, is expected to make hundreds of thousands [...]