Archive for August, 2007

More than 4,100 lots to be sold at unreserved Ritchie Bros. real estate and equipment auction in Edmonton

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

More than 4,100 lots will be sold to the
highest bidders at a three-day unreserved real estate and equipment auction
being conducted by Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers in Edmonton, Alberta on September
5, 6 & 7, 2007. Ritchie Bros., the world’s largest auctioneer of industrial
equipment, recently added a third day to accommodate the large number of lots
in the unreserved [...]

Lake Ontario Fox island fetches $4M at auction

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Lake Ontario’s Fox Island, once owned by a governor of New York state, was sold for US$3.78 million Friday at an auction that drew about 100 bidders.
Winning bidder Vance Wilson, a New Jersey resident, plans to keep the 95-hectare island near Cape Vincent as it is, said Jim Woltz, whose company handed the auction.
Fox Island, [...]

Athletes sign replica Fox shoes for auction

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

The Terry Fox Foundation has announced a new fundraiser that will see some of Canada’s finest athletes signing their names to replicas of the shoes Terry Fox wore during his legendary Marathon of Hope.
Twelve pairs of blue 1979 Adidas Orions, signed by athletes the foundation believes represent the spirit and values of Terry himself, will [...]

Auctions International Inc. Launches AutoBidLive Website

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Auctions International Inc. , a technology company that owns and markets proprietary software to enable real time online auctions of virtually any product or commodity for use by the wholesale market, has launched its AutoBidLive (”ABL”) website auction platform at http://www.autobidlive.com/.
“Since we began trading on June 27, 2007, we have been diligently preparing for the [...]

Vancouvers Storyeum goes on auction block

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Ten months after the doors closed, the remnants of what was billed as Vancouver’s biggest tourist attraction since Expo ‘86 have gone under the auctioneer’s hammer.
Mark Kavanagh of Able Auctions said his company spent the last month preparing to auction some 1,500 items, including hundreds of photographs, huge sets from different eras in B.C. history, [...]

B.C. government online auctions

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Since 2004, the provincial government of British Columbia has operated B.C. Auction. The website is used to sell off surplus goods from the province, lower levels of government, Canada Customs, police departments and health authorities.
“It’s a way for governments to recover money, because they have no way of getting value out of things like surplus [...]

SaleHoo Wholesale Site Fuels Canadian eBay Seller Profits

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

Press Release
SaleHoo Canada is helping Canadian eBay sellers turn their fledgling businesses into highly profitable operations. SaleHoo is one of the most well-known wholesale sites on the Internet and has been widely acclaimed for its range of wholesalers, drop shippers, liquidators and manufacturers. Chad Thompson, SaleHoo’s development manager, says that Canadian sellers are thrilled to [...]

City auction firm responsible for bison deaths

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has upheld a civil court ruling against a Saskatoon agricultural auction over a herd of bison that contracted a fatal disease while awaiting sale in the auction’s barns just outside the city.
The trial judge who found Saskatoon Auction Mart liable for the deaths of 31 bison the company had sold [...]