| eBid Doubles Successful Closings, Adds Videos to Online Auctions
Online auction website eBid said it has doubled the number of auctions that are closing successfully compared to November 2006. The auction marketplace has also unveiled a new design, stating it has "cleaned up the layout, simplified the navigation, improved search, and made it easier to find items you are looking to sell and want to buy." eBid also added functionality for sellers to add videos to auctions when listing items. To add video to their auction listings, sellers upload video files to YouTube and add the unique 11 digit code that each new video is given into the box on the eBid listing page. The online auction site said it has also made other, numerous improvements to the site. eBid is based in the UK. It launched in the US in 2005 and is available in Canada, Australia and Ireland.
Big bucks on the other side of the coin
MUMBAI: You may have sometimes put your hands at the back of an old almirah and found an envelope that felt surprisingly heavy, or perhaps a tin that rattles. Opening it, you found coins: maybe really old ones—lumpy copper coins, ragged edged silver coins—or perhaps coins from other countries, ring-shaped or bimetallic, or Indian coins no longer in common circulation. You might have also found metal tokens or badges or medals, but mostly there'll be coins, no longer of any real value as currency, but which your father or grandfather could never quite bring themselves to discard them. Perhaps you won't have the same compunctions—though in fact it can be surprisingly hard to throw coins away, thanks to our superstitious tendency to link them to luck and prosperity. But assuming you do, and have ever wondered what happens to them, the answer is that they probably end up at the coin fair and auction organised in Mumbai every year by Todywalla's Auctions, India's leading auction house for coins, medals, tokens and paper money.
William Hill Bids to Break up Greece’s Gambling Monopoly
Bookmaker and online casino giant William Hill announced that it has requested a license to open betting shops in Greece, challenging the stronghold over the market established by the countrys official betting organisation, OPAP.
If the license is not granted by the Greek government, as some expect will happen, the firm is prepared to fight it out in the in European courts in an attempt to put a dent in OPAP's monopoly.
William Hill chief executive David Harding said, We believe the recent European cases mean that what is happening is in breach of EU law. If it is rejected we will go to the courts to argue our case and that could involve going to the European Court of Justice.
The company may receive the EUs support to enter the market after Marchs European Court of Justice (EJC) ruling barring Italy from using criminal law to shut out foreign bookmakers in a case presented by Stanley Leisure.
Diaries of a Madwoman -- Stolen?
New allegations of cheating and thievery in the Anna Nicole saga. Lin Wood, the high-powered bull-dog attorney of Howard K. Stern has sent a notice to Heritage Auctions, Inc. over two of Anna Nicole's diaries listed as available on the site. Wood claims that the diaries were stolen and that the company, and the auction sponsor, Clips4Sale.com, are not legally entitled to hawk the items. "Make no mistake: these items were stolen from Ms. Smith by one or more thieves," claims Wood's letter. "Ms. Smith's Estate intends to vigorously pursue the return of the diaries, will take whatever means necessary to secure their return, and will hold to account those persons and entities that have profited through their reprehensible acts at the expense of the Estate." TMZ spoke with Thomas Riccio, the man claiming to be the original owner of the diaries, who denies Wood's claims, saying that "the facts he mentions in the letter are FALSE -- these diaries are NOT stolen, (They were obtained BEFORE her death) -- he is just trying to steal more money in the name of Anna Nicole." The diaries are handwritten journals from 1992 and 1994, and both auctions start at a whopping $26,000.
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