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QuiBids.com is the largest penny auction website currently operating in the United States. Penny auctions have been around for awhile, but have only recently gotten lots of attention from people outside of the penny auction community. Penny auction websites attract people to them by promising expensive, big ticket items at unbelievably low prices – for example, QuiBids shows a new iPad, which retails at $499 for the most basic model, selling for $22.54. But this winning bid of $22.54 is misleading. This isn’t the truth of how much it costs to win that iPad. The way penny auctions work is...

If the National Retail Federation (NRF) has its way, selling goods online will soon become far less anonymous and significantly more onerous for any online auction or discount website. The NRF has announced its support and testified in favor of three bills: H.R. 6713, known as the E-fencing Enforcement Act; H.R. 6491, aka Organized Retail Crime Act of 2008; and S.3434, the "Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2008." As the titles suggest, all of these bills are (supposedly) aimed at fighting organized crime rings, but don't worry—the burdens the NRF would impose upon you are for your own good....

MONTREAL (AFP) — After catching his 15-year-old smoking pot, a father sold the hard-to-get "Guitar Hero III" video game he bought his son for 90 dollars for Christmas at an online auction, fetching 9,000 dollars. The sale took place after the father spent two weeks searching for the video game for the Nintendo Wii gameboard. "So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of Christmas presents pretty much just in the nick of time. I couldn't wait to spread the jubilance to my son," the father wrote on the eBay website. "Then, yesterday, I...

Accused Leader of Counterfeit Motion Picture Network Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Traffic in Counterfeit Goods Guilty Plea Stems From First Joint IPR Investigation by ICE and Chinese Authorities GULFPORT, MS.- Michael A. Holt, Special Agent-in-Charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New Orleans, and Dunn Lampton,United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, today announced that a man arrested on charges resulting from the first joint Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) investigation by U.S. and Chinese authorities has been convicted in federal court in Mississippi. Earlier today, Randolph Hobson Guthrie III, a U.S. citizen, entered a plea...

Breederville.com Enjoys a Successful Year with Online Animal Auctions Just over a year ago, a fledgling concept entered the Internet. Online animal auctions. Breederville.com has proudly proven the concept a success with sales ranging from pets to livestock. Breederville.com Enjoys a Successful Year with Online Animal Auctions December 21, 2005 --(PR.COM)-- Breederville.com had its successful launch November 26, 2004. It’s main focus, Online Animal Auctions. Since their sole focus is classified and auction format listings for live animals, the staff is able to spend considerable amounts time with screening users and lending personal assistance. Successful sales have included, pets such...

Imagine an old fashioned county fair, a wildly popular internet auction site, and Noah's Ark all rolled into one. Has there ever been a special animal you wanted to buy, sell or design? Now there is an internet community especiallly for you! Breederville.com Welcome to Breederville.com Online Animal Auctions! The internet is far more than porn, spam and spyware. Although there is plenty of garbage out there, the good far outweighs the bad. The 'killer app' for the internet is information. It may be news, health information, weather, hardware drivers or game reviews. The type of information is not what...

NEW YORK — Sophisticated cyber-scammers are ripping off hundreds of online auction buyers and sellers through bogus escrow services in the latest variation of Internet fraud. Buyers of expensive cameras, computers and cars, including one man who paid $50,000 for what he thought was a new BMW sport-utility vehicle, have been taken in the auction hustle, which emerged on the Internet last fall. Similarly, sellers of expensive jewelry and other items, including a man who sold a used Rolex Presidential watch for $14,000, also have been victimized. The polish on the scam includes elaborate Web sites with names like Premier-escrow.com,...