Famous Quotes & Sayings

When we succeed at shutting auctions down on eBay, they go somewhere else.

We will have a youth auction starting at 3 p.m. on Saturday. The children will use play money to bid on coins like a real auction, but they get to keep the coins they buy.

We have serious concerns that the end result of this auction will be that terrestrial services will begin to operate in our frequency band and interfere with millions of satellite TV customers' television service.

Casey Mears

This year we're a lot better prepared for it. We had a special paint scheme this year on my helmet and we're going to auction that off. That's going to go to the foundation, and my suits and all that stuff.

Steve Davis

This year, we came of age. This has evolved into what the vision was, which was to create a true lifestyle event with the auction as the nucleus.

We've been running salvage sales for some time for various consignors, but never with this kind of emphasis. Obviously, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have created an immediate need for local and national wholesale salvage services of a different magnitude. Our new TRA operations not only will help meet that need, but will also ensure that the flood-damaged vehicles moving through our auction are represented properly. The safeguards we have regarding vehicle disclosure are designed to protect our buyers and consumers, and to uphold the integrity of the industry in general.

We are so touched by all of the auction item donations we've received from people in the horse business. I am so proud to be a part of this industry and so thankful to all of the people who are participating in this auction.

Yields will have to go up for the auctions to do well. They are too low, I don't want to get in at these levels.

Yields at the auction came at levels that were not lethal to the stock market. Overall, it is somewhat encouraging for equities.

Expectations in the bond market have been high, thus any disappointment over the auction (particularly with the level of foreign participation) could put the dollar under renewed pressure.

Today, the first auction of 30-year Treasury bonds in (almost) five years is expected to go well.

I was a rookie at this. I had never been to an auction in my life.

When the big-screen TV hit the thousands last year, everybody was paying attention. I don?t think ?intense? is the right word, but it had everyone?s attention. The auction benefits the YMCA, and people can get a top-quality item. It?s a win-win situation for everyone.

Mark Bryan

We haven't used it for years, and we were really looking for something to do with it, so this is the perfect solution: pimp it and sell it as an auction item.

We hope that tens of thousands of people will take a look. It's also timed with the Video Music Awards, Jennifer Lopez is up for an award. It will help drive traffic, having auctions coordinated with these events.

Which was basically the community telling us there is a need for an auction house.

We don't serve drinks or ice cream in foam containers -- everything is placed into authentic glassware I basically obtained from auctions or yard sales.

We encourage only those with genuine and serious interest in the auction to place their bids.

Dick Miller

We do this in preparation of our auction that will be in November.

We are thrilled to be expanding Camp Erin into the Boise and Sun Valley communities. Camp Erin is such a gift to the children, and makes an incredible difference in their lives by providing hope and comfort during the painful grieving process. We are also very excited about our unique Dream Catchers auction in February.

We are now in auction mode. They finally put a respectable bid on the table.

New auctions will satisfy an unusual coincidence of needs on the supply and demand side of the fixed-income debt markets.

Tim Brady

On the auction side, it is a person-to-person payment, and right now they have to do that off line. The reason this is great for Yahoo! is that it really lowers the barrier for those transactions to take place.

We have had some discussions with staff at the Justice Department regarding eBay and the online trading business generally. We believe the contact with DOJ may have been prompted by auction listing aggregators, such as Bidder's Edge...our dispute with Bidder's Edge fundamentally is a commercial one that concerns eBay's right to prevent unauthorized trespassing into its computer system, can use eBay content in a manner which confuses and misleads eBay users.

Unfortunately Woodbine Racetrack is not a venue that will be available for this year's sale, but we're thrilled to be able to offer the Canadian Open at a terrific facility like Country Heritage Park. We've been hosting the auction on Sundays in recent years, but a Wednesday format allows us to proceed with as little inconvenience as possible to horsemen and potential buyers.

Thus we have plans to capitalize on that growth through network expansion and evolution and perhaps through other strategic initiatives, including participation in the upcoming spectrum auctions both on our own, or potentially with partners.

We are pursuing this lawsuit to ensure that the ICC follows the laws that expressly call for consumers to be protected from the inflated rates that would result if the ICC approves this unauthorized auction process,

People are concerned about how smoothly today's auction will go.

My only market analysis was to look around and see that, in one way or another, most watches are inspired by watches that were made in the 18th and 19th centuries. If I wanted a watch like that, I'd much rather buy the real thing at auction than a replica.

Kage Baker

Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.

Maria Miller

We usually don't do it that way. If he's trading goods and services and intangibles and things that have an auction value, then we just estimate when it's not pure money.

We use that money very judiciously, and it's always difficult at auctions because you never know where the prices will go.

We hope to serve over 100 dinners tonight and we would really like to thank the local businesses that donated the silent auction items.