Sotheby’s has announced its first ever major international auction series in the Middle East will take place on Wednesday, March 18 and Thursday, March 19, 2009 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Doha, Qatar.
Sotheby’s two-day international auction series will include sales of Orientalist Art, Watches, Arab, Iranian and International Contemporary Art. Highlights from all [...]

At the recent Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite auction in Hong Kong the highest bid was for a spectacular Jacob & Co. cushion-shaped diamond ring. Featuring a 34.07 carat, D color, internally flawless stone, the ring commanded an impressive $5.78 million, and was acquired by a private collector. The fourth highest selling item, also from [...]

eBay has launched a service to help large merchants sell thousands of fixed-price products via eBay.
The new program, Large Merchant Services, is still in beta, according to eBay. It “provides an efficient way to process large numbers of transactions within the eBay Trading Platform.” It also offers inventory management based on SKU numbers.
“EBay is acknowledging [...]

Mercent, a leading provider of online marketing technology and services for retail merchants, today announced the launch of catalog merchandising and order integration software for high-volume eBay sellers, integrated directly with eBay Large Merchant Services, a new set of APIs on the eBay platform currently in public beta.
Mercent now provides enterprise retailers the ability to [...]

A first-edition copy of Dracula, signed by the author Bram Stoker, is expected to fetch up to €25,300 at Sotheby’s in London on December 17.
Stoker was born in 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent, located today in Fairview, but then in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland. He attended Trinity College, Dublin from 1864 to 1870 and graduated with [...]

The forthcoming Collectables sale on 30 November will be one of the most diverse held by Bonhams & Goodman in recent years. A wide range of memorabilia is on offer, sure to whet the appetites of collectors of vintage toys, sporting memorabilia, medals, comics, vintage film and advertising posters, and entertainment memorabilia.
One of the [...]

Joyner Waddington’s auction of fine Canadian art in Toronto resulted in sales of 200 of the 303 lots on offer, taking a total of $415,000, including buyer’s premium.

Synutra International, Inc. , a leading infant formula company in China, and a producer, marketer and seller of nutritional products for infants, children and adults, today announced that it ranked 5th overall in last week’s China Central Television (CCTV) 2009 primetime advertising slot auction. The Company was awarded advertising slots approximately equivalent to a gross [...]

TOKYOBID is a multilanguage delegated bidding system designed for overseas Web users who are interested in Japanese products. Users can use English or Thai to search and bid for over 15 million items listed on major Japanese auctions sites. Winning bid items are opened and their contents checked, temporarily stored in TOKYOBID warehouses, and then [...]

Very good results were achieved at the two-day Ketterer Kunst auction marathon in Hamburg. The evening auction alone achieved overall proceeds amounting to € 550 000*, topping an estimated sales volume of € 450 000. At approx € 1 300 000, the overall proceeds from the auction of Rare Books – Manuscripts – Autographs – [...]