An Open Letter to the Live Auction Industry and Creation of the Online Auctioneers Association

The Live Auctioneer empire strikes back. In a PRWEB release pubished on Yahoo! News the author explains: "Clearly, the 75 million bidders registered on eBay obviously prefer the eBay timed auction model instead of the eBayLive Auctions model. Reversing the trend and driving online bidders to participate in live auctions is the mission of the Online Auctioneers Association."

New Patent-Pending Online Reverse Auction System 'Tip-Mart'

Yahoo! Finance reports: In Tip-Mart's reverse auction, buyers no longer are required to search through and evaluate thousands of potential sellers to locate legal services. Instead, buyers merely post unlimited free reverse auctioned-classifieds ("tipmarts" = "systems and methods for online reverse auctions") for a particular good or service. The burden is then shifted to interested sellers to competitively bid among other interested sellers to provide the good or service to the buyer. The buyer is then able to conveniently and easily evaluate various offers based on reputation, price, quality, users' feedback- ratings, or other terms and then accept the best offer. Thus, the system eliminates market inefficiencies, drives down prices, increases sales, and provides value to both buyers and sellers.
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Discover 6 Myths Surrounding Online Auctions

(PRWEB) - (PRWEB) January 19, 2006 -- Online Auctions are unmistakably among the hottest eSourcing technologies on the Internet business today. But what exactly is an online auction anyway and what are its benefits? According to The Pocket Oxford Dictionary, fourth edition (1942), an auction is a "public sale in which articles are sold to the highest bidder." And if done on Internet it is online auction.

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Buying Cars at Live Auctions Better than Buying Online for Some Consumers Live Auto Auction Rules Easier to Follow

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Need a holiday in the Sun? Buy it at an online auction!

"Seven nights in Corfu for a pound? No, it isn't a joke. It doesn't happen very often, but if you buy your holiday at an online auction, you might just find yourself going, going, gone...for the price of a cup of coffee", explains By Karen Rockett from the Sunday Mirror...

02/01/05 A review of the Online Auction World in 2005

See the article "Online Auctions 2005: Google and eBay Compete for Headlines", by Ina & David Steiner, published on AuctionBytes for a review of some of the developments that occured in 2005 including the failed attempt by Google to rival eBay and the Asian battle opposing Yahoo and eBay...

03/01/2006 Back to the high street?

Is this new year set to see high street businesses providing online auction services flourish? The trend is well under way in the USA and for those still shy of the Internet or unsure about how to conduct a sale or without time to deal with all the little things that need doing, those Trading Assistants offer a useful service. See for example, the Press release from PR web concerning Planet Auction.