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eBay has launched a service to help large merchants sell thousands of fixed-price products via eBay.

The new program, Large Merchant Services, is still in beta, according to eBay. It “provides an efficient way to process large numbers of transactions within the eBay Trading Platform.” It also offers inventory management based on SKU numbers.

“EBay is acknowledging the strength of Amazon’s model and clearly they’re making changes to target the same enterprise branded-seller market upon which Amazon has built their third-party seller program,” said Eric Best, CEO of Mercent, a Seattle-based company that helps retailers take advantage of eBay’s new service.

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EBay Launches Large Merchant Services

TOKYOBID is a multilanguage delegated bidding system designed for overseas Web users who are interested in Japanese products. Users can use English or Thai to search and bid for over 15 million items listed on major Japanese auctions sites. Winning bid items are opened and their contents checked, temporarily stored in TOKYOBID warehouses, and then shipped internationally according to the user’s instructions. Credit cards and Paypal are supported as payment methods.
Initially, Yahoo! Auctions (Japan) will be supported, and will be expanded to other auction services according to user demand.

Japanese domestic shipping, content checking, warehousing, packing and international shipping will be managed. All of the transactions will be handled by Japanese staff. Package professionals recognized by the Institute of Packaging Professionals Japan will handle packing. Problems commonly encountered when using delegated bidding and export agents are minimized. Also, TOKYOBID PROTECTION will provide a compensation system in case of any problems (*conditions may apply), and thus the system can be enjoyed safely.

Products and content originating in Japan are available worldwide. However, it is difficult to obtain products from Japan not available on a commercial basis. Due to the difficulty in purchasing these types of items from Japan, the fact was that many people could not get the items they wanted. In particular, the big language barrier makes it virtually impossible to sell items on Japanese auctions sites using a foreign language. During service launch, TOKYOBID will provide Thai language services as well as English, which is the main language used by Web users. TOKYOBID will continue to offer more languages and will strive to remove the language barrier.

TOKYOBID will become the infrastructure to connect Japanese “Sellers” and worldwide “Buyers” and will strive to create a system where anybody, anywhere will be able to obtain goods from Japan.

About OCLCOM
Operate “TOKYOBID” service which enables worldwide bidders to participate in Japanese online auctions. Operate “Soryo no Tora”, one of the largest shipping portal sites in Japan with 3 million monthly page views.

http://www.tokyobid.com/

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OCLCOM Launches TOKYOBID for Japanese Online Auctions

AuctionCentralNews.com Offers Sellers and Collectors Single Destination for News, Information and Interaction

NEW YORK, NY – Created as the foremost resource for news and specialist information within the global antiques, fine art and auction sector, Auction Central News (“ACN”) launches today at www.AuctionCentralNews.com.

Produced by LiveAuctioneers.com as a courtesy to its database of 2.8 million registered online bidders worldwide, ACN is the premier online destination for authoritative reports, columns, interviews with industry insiders, recent auction prices realized and tips on upcoming auctions.

Unlike any other news portal reporting on the auction business, ACN takes a comprehensive approach that incorporates news, images and video from stringers and news services worldwide, while at the same time welcoming “grassroots” input, in the form of press releases and news tips from auctioneers, PR firms, dealers and collectors.

“After nearly two years of extensive research and development, we are excited to announce the first online news service that is devoted exclusively to art, collecting and auctions,” said LiveAuctioneers.com CEO Julian Ellison. “Created as our gift to the collecting community worldwide, Auction Central News will serve to connect collectors to auction house owners, agents and other collectors, while finally affording them a true online lifestyle destination to discuss their hobbies and give feedback regarding the industry.”

ACN is an outgrowth of LiveAuctioneers.com’s hugely successful weekly e-mail newsletter, which has been an important informational resource to the trade and collectors for nearly five years. Under the direction of Editor-in-Chief Catherine Saunders-Watson, ACN’s team of writers and associate editors in the USA, United Kingdom and Continental Europe are dedicated to providing the very latest news and information from across the globe. In addition to breaking news, the site features regular columns written by nationally syndicated experts on antiques and art, including “Furniture Specific,” “Live Auction Talk,” “Gallery Report,” and “Common Sense Antiques.”

Additionally, ACN brings you special features such as “Vantage Point,” a Q&A interview column with industry leaders in the guest chair; “Hot Lots,” which tracks selected high-interest items currently online at LiveAuctioneers.com; and video clips contributed by auction houses as well as ACN’s own staff.

Members will also have the ability to converse via bulletin boards and chat rooms. Also under development are antiques and arts wikis that will encourage auction houses, collectors and dealers to share their knowledge, as well as a Vlog function and many other innovations.

The launch of ACN comes on the heels of publicly released details of plans for LiveAuctioneers.com to launch an independent online-bidding platform separate from eBay, their current platform provider.

About LiveAuctioneers.com
Founded in November 2002 and recently named to Inc. Magazine’s 2008 list of the 5000 fastest-growing privately held companies, Manhattan-based LiveAuctioneers.com provides real-time Internet bidding capability to more than 730 auction houses in a dozen countries. LiveAuctioneers.com has opened up once-exclusive sales to the cyber community worldwide through online publication of auction catalogs, and Internet bidding. Similar to telephone bidding, buyers at remote locations can conveniently participate in auctions in real time from their computers as the auction is being conducted. There is no cost to register and no obligation to bid; anyone can watch the action online, in real time. For further information, log on to www.liveauctioneers.com.

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Westboro, MA, - IndustrialSAVER a division of Massachusetts-based Industrial Leaders Group (ILG), announced today the launch of its new industrial and construction equipment auction directory available at http://www.IndustrialSAVER.com/auctions/. According to Catalina Sanchez, spokeswoman for the company, the site is designed to connect buyers and sellers of new and used heavy equipment as well as agriculture, mining, deep hole drilling, and other construction and industrial equipment and machinery.

Ms. Sanchez pointed out IndustrialSAVER’s auction was launched just 12 hours ago and auction listings are now just being added to the site. The directory focuses primarily on but not limited to North American-based industrial and construction equipment auctions. Qualified domestic and international auctioneers are able to include the details of their upcoming auctions on the site such as the date the event is to take place, address, terms and conditions, equipment specifications to the products to be auctioned along with high-resolutions photographs.

IndustrialSAVER also publishes an on-line Industrial and Construction Equipment Classifieds and Marketplace at http://www.IndustrialSAVER.com/classifieds/.

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IndustrialSAVER Launches New Industrial and Construction Equipment Auctions and Auctioneers Directory

London, England – MadBid.com, a new internet-based auction platform that allows consumers to bag a bargain on new retail goods, today announced their official launch in the UK.

MadBid.com’s new online auction offers users the opportunity to snag premium retail products – ranging from gadgets such as iPods, mobile phones and laptops to lifestyle products such as holidays, games consoles, petrol vouchers and even cars and motorbikes – at a fraction of the cost.

Current categories:

· Lifestyle (petrol vouchers, shopping vouchers)

· Technology (laptops, PCs, gadgets, iTouchs, Wiis, xBox)

· Entertainment (DVDs and recorders, TVs, sound systems)

· Holidays (package, flights only, hotel rooms)

Open to all residents of the UK over the age of 16, MadBid.com uses “bids” instead of direct cash to auction off the latest and greatest gifts and goodies in a fun, game-like environment.

Getting started is easy: customers sign up to use the service in a few clicks and, once registered, can return to bid on as many items, as many times as they like. Bidding can take place online or through a registered account via a mobile phone. MadBid.com’s daily auctions are live and allow users to watch the progress of their bids in real time on their computer screens, making the process suspenseful down to the last few seconds of each bidding session.

“Internet based auctions can be an entertaining and fun way to save money on new purchases. Buy your bids to be in with a chance of winning new, cool products at mad prices!” said Juha Koski, Managing Director at MadBid.com.

Come and try it out for yourself and go MAD with MadBid.com at www.madbid.com.

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