| 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.
Legislature needs to rescind last year's power bidding law
It was quite the understatement from Rep. Gerald Hocker that the convoluted law requiring Delmarva Power to solicit bids for new energy sources "has gotten off track." It's not just off the track, it's down the mountain, across the highway and in the river. This process is a fiasco of major proportion. .
Blyth Auction Service
Located on Rt.7 in the town of Schoharie, NY take I-88 to exit 23 to Rt. 7 east 1 mile to sale barn.
Partial Listing:Clean mahogany multiple drawer mirror back dental cabinet w/ marble kick plate base, House fresh old cast iron mechanical bank Humpty Dumpty, Several animated Lux alarm clocks including beer drinkers, windmill, 2 gristmills, showboat, rare blue willow electric toaster, #452 Brass National cash register on quarter saw oak base w/ drawer complete, Crosley model 1018 floor standing radio, mint clean old enameled gas kitchen stove, rail road lanterns, 6 board blanket chest w/ boot jack ends in red paint, Murray Battalion #1 Peddle car fire truck, 8 day kroeber mantle clock Cimbria w/ bronze statue w/ engraved works, Victorian walnut Gilbert wall clock fancy time only Thespian, 2 working animated glass paperweight ball clocks one fisherman, fancy sterling silver table lighter, Tiffany sterling pen, 5 PC.
Groups to auction Harry Potter dates
What do you get when you take Harry Potter fans, Monty Python fans, advocates for medieval studies and belly dancers in the same room? One imaginative charity fundraiser. The Three Broomsticks (the Harry Potter Club on campus), Monty Python Society, Society for Creative Anachronism and the Parlak Kizlar Belly Dancing Troupe will be joining forces Sunday afternoon to celebrate and raise money for Red Nose Day. .
Thai draft constitution ends Senate bids
BANGKOK -- Thailand unveiled a draft constitution yesterday that eliminates direct elections for the country's Senate, bolsters the power of the judiciary and absolves the leaders of the September military coup of any wrongdoing. Adoption of a new constitution, which would be Thailand's 18th since the abolition of absolute monarchy 75 years ago, is crucial to resolving the yearlong political crisis and a prerequisite for a return to democracy. But the document, which was drafted by a 35-member committee selected by the junta, quickly came under criticism yesterday as not being democratic enough. "It's a constitution designed to decrease democracy and the role of the electorate," said Ji Giles Ungpakorn, an associate professor of political science at Chulalongkorn University.
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