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WHAT'S BEING BOUGHT AND SOLD? The most popular consumer goods on eBay are designer handbags, shoes and accessories, and high-end crystal, furniture, art and electronics. There are other auction sites too. Amazon has a cooperative marketplace with a store-within-a-store concept, like a Louis Vuitton boutique in Bloomingdale's. Google just launched Base, which brings buyers and sellers together through advertising. Then there are niche players like [my company] portero.com for luxury goods...
With a couple extra dollar bills in their pocket and love in the air, more than 850 students came to Friday’s Pub Night in Loker Commons, hoping to buy both a date and a beer. Friday’s pub night was preceded by a date auction hosted by the Harvard Cancer Society (HCS). Apart from enjoying the entertainment and company, the attendees also enjoyed Pinocchio’s pizza, beer, wine, and other beverages at cost, but partook of pretzels and other small crunchy snacks for free while enjoying the music of Orange Crush.Many students were...
...Hockney has always managed to take his art down enough new paths--double portraits, photocollages, Cubist landscapes--to keep himself, if not always cutting edge, then at least fresh and relevant. He's in the small club of living artists whose work has fetched more than $2 million at auction ($2,869,500 in 2002 for his 1966 Portrait of Nick Wilder). His devotion to representational art has sometimes made him seem out of step, sometimes in. Two years ago, he was one of just a handful of artists of his generation to be included in the Whitney Biennial...
...gain for the Mei/Moses Art Index, based on repeat sales of artwork at auction...
...Loker Commons was filled with hoots, bids, and excitement as 20 brave freshmen were auctioned off this past Saturday at the Freshmen Date Auction, an event thrown by the First-Year Social Committee (FYSC). The proceeds of the event, totalling around $500, went to Globe Santa, a charity run by the Boston Globe which delivers holiday gifts to needy children, according to FYSC Chair Zachary A.Y. Pollinger ’09. Bidding started at $5 and went up in $5 increments. Ayla N. Bloomberg ’09—who, according to the night’s emcee, listed...