Word: auction
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Large merchants as well as individuals who sell via online auction giant eBay often refuse to ship goods to Indonesia, Romania and Ukraine. Buy.com has completely overhauled its overseas-shipping practices. Citing fraud, the discount e-tailer last year closed its export operations run from offices in Britain, Canada and Australia and instead built a more secure export system run through its shipping partner in Florida...
...This is really, really nice, people. I know I’ve said that before, but come on, this actually is nice,” auctioneer Sloan J. Eddleston ’04 assured the crowd, keeping spirits up and wallets open during Kirkland House’s annual storage auction yesterday...
Leading a pack of bargain hunters and curious passersby on a tour through the bowels of Kirkland, Eddleston peddled oak coat racks, metal tables and muck-marked rugs students had donated for the auction...
...auction raised $750 and the crowd peaked at 90 people...
...Scotland, sometime during the 15th century. Mathison?s 32-page work, The Goff, written in the satirical form of an epic poem, describes a match whose outcome is influenced by favoritism of the gods, chiefly the game?s patroness, Golfinia. A 1793 copy of The Goff was sold at auction in Edinburgh last week...