Free Auction News & Reviews | Volume #24 | December 2008

Merry Christmas And A Happy & Prosperous 2009 To All From AuctionLotwatch!

We hope you find our last newsletter of 2008 helpful - a selection of News, Views and Articles it is intended to be a useful guide to the current auction scene. Send your auction news to us and we may publish it - details in the footer of this email.

Auction News Roundup

Hoy's shirt up for charity auction...
Amazon Marketplace offering dangerous goods...
Growing number of unwanted gifts are sold...
Fake barrister bought wig from eBay..
eBay stores prove a goldmine..
Grandma auctions seat to stop fights..
eBay Alternatives See Traffic Growth..
Ten ways to cut the cost of Christmas..

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Last Minute Christmas Shopping?
With Christmas fast approaching it's not too late to snap up those last minute Christmas present bargains. AuctionFinal.com lets you sort through the millions of auction lots on eBay in seconds! Busier than ever this year AuctionFinal finds auctions that are closing with minutes to spare - all with no bids. No need to spend over your budget either - not only can you set the closing time but also your maximum price. Better still if you're stuck for Christmas gift ideas with one click it searches all eBay categories and finds items you probably never thought of... [ Visit Site]

eBid crosses the two million listings mark...
eBid recognized as the ‘best eBay alternative’ by Webuser Magazine has passed the two million listings mark in the run up to Christmas. eBid co-founder, Mark Wilkinson says: “We know from our ever increasing user base, closing sales and general chatter among the internet communities, that shoppers are now looking for holiday bargains as they continue to tighten their purse strings and look for heavily discounted or second hand items.” [ Visit eBid ]

CQOut Featured on BBC's Working Lunch
CQOut the UK based auction site was featured on BBC2's Working Lunch last week. The site said it's up to 920,000+ live listings. Director Tony Newton said CQout is powering a new site (www.forcesbid.co.uk) (not owned or operated by them) that seeks to generate funds for the Help For Heroes campaign. .. [ Visit CQOut ]

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Amazon Slated - eBay Praised on BBC Watchdog...
BBC's Watchdog show recently slated Amazon for allowing the sale of dangerous goods & counterfeit products. Max Vetter, from the Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau, says: "The systems that Amazon has in place at the moment to stop counterfeit goods on their site are woefully inadequate. Compared with eBay, Amazon doesn't seem to have any system in place that could quickly remove counterfeit goods from its sites". [ Read Article ]

Auction Websites Hang In Legal Limbo
Heavyweights in the online world are weighing in on a lawsuit that threatens to derail internet retailing. The case is being brought by Tiffany against online auction site, eBay. Amazon and Google, as well as Yahoo and others have sided with eBay. [ Read More ]

Bidz.com Sparkles At Christmas
BIDZ Inc the leading online auctioneer of jewellery recently reported that it is opening a complete German-language version of its online auction site. They also recently reported that net revenues for the third quarter of 2008 were up by 38.2% ...... [Visit BIDZ]

Alternative Auction Sites Trends
Even in difficult financial times the number of alternative auction sites continues to remain stable at around 50 in the UK market alone. However in the nearly seven years of trying to maintain a definative Alternative Auction Sites list we have seen some unfortunately fall by the wayside. You can check out the current list here ...... [Alternative Auction Sites]

Auction Lotwatch In The Press

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