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Local Yokel is extending its Performance Guarantee (see details below) to all store levels! Now virtually everyone can easily afford a Local Yokel Store and enjoy reduced risk along with all the other great benefits Local Yokel Stores provide.

The Local Yokel Auctions Store Performance Guarantee, if a store owners sales and/or referral commissions total less than the cost of the one-month store subscription, Local Yokel Auctions will refund the difference.

Mark Witt, President, Local Yokel Auctions stated: “For as little as $10 per month a person can have a world-wide presence on the Internet! A Local Yokel Auction’s Store provides an opportunity for anyone to compete with the “Big Boys”. Local Yokel Auctions will help promote and drive traffic to the Local Yokel store.”

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Local Yokel Auctions Extends Store Performance Guarantee

About 47 metric tons of ivory auctioned for about 6.7 million U.S. dollars in aid of South Africa’s conservation efforts, South Africa National Parks said on Thursday.

The sale, approved by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), took place in Pretoria.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) criticised the sales as irresponsible, saying they would encourage poaching that has cut elephant populations drastically.

“By permitting legal trade in ivory, we are only encouraging the laundering of stocks by poachers, thereby increasing illegal hunting activities,” IFAW elephants programme director Michael Wamithi said in a statement.

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South Africa Ivory Auction

The online collectible auction site, The Noble Auction House (TNAH), http://nobleauctionhouse.com, is now launched and welcome all collectors to register. All registered members can fully access to the Noble Auction House to purchase or sell their brand new as well as used collectibles such as Arts and Antiques, Celebrities Autographs, Coins and Paper Money, Memorabilia, Stamps and etc.

“We are dedicated to creating a friendly and safe environment for collectors to list their collectibles for sale and allow users to bid for their favorite collectibles.” Says TNAH CEO Peter Chao, a passionate collector, “the philosophy of Noble Auction House is simple: if we work together we can all be winners.”

Our first Auction will take place on Dec 21, 2008. Be ready to sell, bid and win together. For more information or to join in The Noble Auction House: http://nobleauctionhouse.com.

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Noble Auction House online collectible auction site

A.Y. Jackson’s 1937 oil painting, Alberta Foothills, is expected to fetch $125,000 to $175,000 during the next Heffel Fine Art Auction.

The 25 x 32 in signed landscape depicts Alberta’s prairie.

The auction takes place Nov. 19 at Toronto’s Park Hyatt Hotel.

Preview at: Heffel Gallery Montreal

Auction info www.heffel.com

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Heffel Fall Auction of Fine Canadian Art Nov 19

Patent Kinetics, LLC, is holding a Sealed Bid Auction for unique Internet domain name Cold.com which closes at 5 P.M. EST, Friday, November 14th.

Sealed bids must be received no later than 5 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, Friday, November 14, 2008. The minimum acceptable bid is US$1 million. The sale to the highest bidder is expected to close in early December.

Documents detailing the sealed bid auction process, auction rules, and related terms and conditions are available on the Web at http://www.cold.com and at http://www.patentkinetics.com. In addition, the Cold.com Sealed Bid Auction FAQ on the Cold.com web site has been updated several times since the initial announcement and press release on October 14th.

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Cold.com Domain Name Auction Nov 14