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...Islamic Center in Jamaica, N.Y. where the funeral service is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. A native of Great Neck, N.Y., and a 2003 graduate of Williams College, Shakir was an active member of the Harvard Law School Council, the International Law Society, and the Public Interest Auction. She worked with the New York law firm Kramer and Levin over the past summer, where she assisted the firm in its successful effort to win political asylum for a persecuted Togolese woman. Michael J. Sternhell, one of the attorneys who worked on the case, said that Shakir...
...irony is that all this fluff and fribble are arriving just as more women are getting serious about wine. That's the real news, says wine auctioneer Ursula Hermacinski, author of the forthcoming Wine Lover's Guide to Auctions. From her auctioneer's perch, Hermacinski sees more women raising bidding paddles and crashing the largely male club of wine collectors. "At each new auction, there seems to be a new female face, bidding on her own, for her own account, as opposed to holding her husband's or boyfriend's paddle," says Hermacinski. "At the last auction there...
Smith isn't the only person to have been burned in an Internet auction--not by far. According to the list of top consumer complaints to the Federal Trade Commission for 2005, released in January, Internet-related scams accounted for 46%, or 316,000, of all fraud gripes last year. And the percentage of Internet frauds with "wire transfer" as the reported payment method more than tripled from...
...like to buy things on eBay and other online auction sites, as I do, here's what you need to know to protect yourself...
COMPARE PRICES. Look at recent auctions of similar items. If you see that the same thing sold for about the same dollar amount, you can generally expect that to be the market price. Buyers who don't compare prices risk overpaying or--like Smith--getting taken. Some crafty sellers use friends and associates to get a bidding frenzy started and then let you know--after the auction has closed--that the other bidders have defaulted and you can get the item for your "bargain" bid in the middle of the range. In that case, of course, your bargain...