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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.
Revised bidding documents from ICTAD for construction industry
COLOMBO: The Director General of Advisory Service Vajira Ranasinghe said yesterday that with the view to develop and uplift minor, medium and major scale construction industries in Sri Lanka the Institute for Construction Training and Development (ICTAD) had introduced new revised bidding documents from time to time according to the local and international changes in the construction industry. In this connection, it has arranged two seminars for engineers, quantity surveyors, constructors and Government and private construction industries who are engaged in construction work. Addressing the workshop at ICTAD auditorium Vajira Ranasinghe said that during the last seminar they introduced the standard bidding documents for minor scale contracts as well as medium level contracts.
Christie's holds mammoth auction to sell mammoths
PARIS (AP) - Here's your chance to buy something really old. Today, Christie's auction house in Paris is selling a 15-thousand-year-old Siberian mammoth skeleton. You'll need plenty of room and plenty of cash if you want it. Bidding starts at nearly 200-thousand dollars. Tusks and all, it's more than 12 feet high and 16 feet long. The other items up for auction today include an unhatched dinosaur egg and a 330-pound meteorite. (Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Dovebid Launches Durable Medical Equipment Exchange Featuring
Los Angeles, CA - DoveBid, Inc., the global provider of capital asset auction and valuation services, announced recently that it has expanded its auction exchange program to include an online Durable Medical Equipment Exchange (DMEX). DoveBid's first Durable Medical Equipment Exchange (DMEX) online auction will be conducted May 2-3, 2007, from 12:00 am PDT until 5:00 pm PDT at http://www.dovebid.com and will feature clinical trial assets from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Assets include state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, X-ray systems, an ultrasound system, LDX analyzers, digital instruments, defibrillators, IVUS imaging systems, vital signs monitors, and much more. DoveBid's Durable Medical Equipment Exchange enables companies to proactively address asset management challenges in real time.
ART MARKET WATCH
The winning price set an auction record for an Indian sculpture. The work was sold by Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery, which is raising funds to expand its holding of contemporary art. The monumental Chola sculpture shows Lord Shiva seated on a double-lotus pedestal in the lalitasana posture -- one of "royal ease" -- with his four heads facing the four cardinal directions, and his hands in the blessing (abhaya) and teaching (varada) gestures. Shiva as Brahma joins the CMA's impressive collection of Indian sculpture, though it does not immediately go on view due to the institution's ongoing $258-million Rafael Violy expansion. RUSSIAN ART WEEK IN NEW YORK
Both Christie's and Sotheby's have scheduled sales of Russian art for the middle of April 2007.
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