FDIC Lands 'Marijuana-Reeking' Tour Bus And Other Odd Items During Bank Failures
The financial crisis that popped the real estate bubble and pushed U.S. bank failures to a 17-year high landed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. a r...
The financial crisis that popped the real estate bubble and pushed U.S. bank failures to a 17-year high landed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. a r...
Posted 12.18.2009 | Impact
British rock band Coldplay is cleaning house, and for a good cause. The band has decided to auction many of the instruments and memorabilia collected ...
Posted 12.11.2009 | Impact
UPDATE: Audrey Hepburn's auctioned wardrobe took in twice its pre-sale estimate, Reuters reported. The collection raised 268,000 pounds ($437,800), h...
AP | Posted 12.04.2009 | Books
NEW YORK — A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe's first book has sold for $662,500, smashing the previous record price for American literature. The c...
Yahoo! News | James Pomfret | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business
A rare, 5-carat pink diamond was auctioned off for a record $10.8 million in Hong Kong on Tuesday, putting some shine back into the world's rare and l...
Reyne Haines | Posted 11.05.2009 | Style
The bidding was strong with prospective buyers on the phone, Internet and on the auction room floor. The hammer dropped at 550K British Pounds. (Approximately $906,500 US dollars.)
Politics Daily | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
EBay has removed an auction posted by supporters of Scott Roeder, the man charged with the May murder of abortionist George Tiller. The listing featur...
Reyne Haines | Posted 10.14.2009 | Style
I'm talking about collecting, upcoming auctions, and an authentic piece of vampire history you can acquire this Halloween.
John Lundberg | Posted 10.04.2009 | Living
Sotheby's expert Gabriel Heaton gave us a hint of their contents, telling the British newspaper The Guardian that "Byron clearly enjoyed writing slightly outrageous things to a clergyman..."
The Aspen Times | Aspen Times | Posted 11.29.2009 | Home
ASPEN - An unpaid loan balance of $36.3 million has put the historic Hotel Jerome on the auction block....
AP | Posted 09.13.2009 | World
LONDON (AP) -- More than 80 years after it was first published --and later outlawed-- in Germany, a signed copy of Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto "...
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 08.17.2009 | Style
Four decades after the moonlanding, I found myself sitting among the bidders at Bonhams New York. On the 40th anniversary of the launch, the auction house was holding its first space sale ever.
Reyne Haines | Posted 07.04.2009 | Style
Even in a recession, we still hear about high prices achieved at auction for desirable antiques and collectibles. This held true recently at an auc...
Lesley Stern | Posted 07.03.2009 | Comedy
You probably think you've already sold everything you own that had any financial value. But chances are, you've still got a few possessions that you can really cash in on if you auction them off on eBay.
Anneli Rufus | Posted 06.15.2009 | Style
Are Alina Percea and her ilk reinventing ancient initiation rites, accidentally-on-purpose? Is the online virginity auction the initiation rite of a new age?
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment
A collection of Michael Jackson's possessions from Neverland Ranch is safe from the auctioneer's gavel now that the pop singer and Julien's Auction Ho...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics
Don't be too surprised if Palin memorabilia becomes a "Republican stimulus package," so to speak.
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 01.04.2009 | Living
By all accounts, yes even from the pessimists, online shopping Thanksgiving weekend was a blockbuster, up 13% from last year. But let's take a little time out for safety, security, and common sense.
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 11.09.2008 | Living
Can't Sell That House! If someone tells you a "seller carryback" is a good idea--and I heard it on the radio the other day--run screaming from t...
AP | Posted 05.14.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — A Claude Monet painting was auctioned Tuesday for more than $41 million, breaking the auction record for the French Impressionist art...
bloomberg.com | Posted 12.22.2009 | Business