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...baseball fans so rabid that a signed mitt or a piece of AstroTurf does not constitute an adequate relic. Perhaps this explains a $23,000 bid on eBay last week for bone chips removed from the elbow of Seattle Mariners pitcher JEFF NELSON, which he had put up for auction for charity. It was not unprecedented. Recently a man paid $10,000 for a piece of gum chewed by Arizona Diamondback Luis Gonzalez, and another paid $75 for clippings from the goatee of Oakland A Tim Hudson. Neither of those transactions took place on eBay, however, which has rules against...
...roommates and friends who have tried to price tickets on this website and have ended up buying tickets to destinations far and wide instead. This site is designed as a psuedo auction house, so one has to put in a bid (and a credit card number) to see what sort of rates are offered. FM kept its maxed out credit card far away from here...
...first European to win the award. SENTENCED. A. ALFRED TAUBMAN, 78, colorful principal owner and former chairman of Sotheby's, to one year and a day in prison and fined $7.5 million, for heading a six-year price-fixing scheme in collaboration with the other major international auction house Christie's; in New York City. Christie's provided the authorities with key documents in exchange for conditional amnesty. RESIGNED. KAREN HUGHES, 45, senior White House advisor; in Washington, D.C. Hughes had been a top aide to President George W. Bush since his 1994 run for Texas Governor. She cited family...
...Monday sentencing of philanthropist A. Alfred Taubman for his role in orchestrating a price-fixing scheme between the nation’s top two auction houses will not affect the Kennedy School of Government’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government, said officials at the school yesterday...
Taubman, who donated $15 million in 1988 to found the center, colluded for six years with Sir Anthony Tennant, the former head of rival auction house Christie’s, violating a federal antitrust law by fixing the fees the auction houses charged to sellers...