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The Fleet Auction Group
FLEET SALE - THURSDAY 8th APRIL 2004
11.00am Details in the GAUK Database

Tilbury Auction List
Here is the list of stock due for the next auction at Tilbury. For full details please visit the website on www.japaneseimportauctions.com
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Tuesday 13th April 2004

Please note this catalogue is incomplete due to a late delivery.
In order of entry:
LOT, REG, MAKE, MODEL, ENGINE, COLOUR, ODOMETER
2345,Jan-97,TOYOTA,SPACIO,1600,SILVER,96744
2344,Oct-98,TOYOTA,SPACIO,1600,SILVER,69556
2611,Mar-93,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2310,Mar-93,TOYOTA,LUCIDA,2200,SILVER,127991
2647,May-93,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2127,Sep-94,TOYOTA,EMINA X,2200,DARK GREEN,83397
1866,Sep-94,Toyota,EMINA X LTD,2200,GREEN,107320
2510,Jan-95,TOYTA,EMINA X,2200,GREY,105923
2605,Jan-95,Toyota,Emina,2200,,
2295,Mar-95,TOYOTA,LUCIDA,2200,SILVER,123326
2634,Mar-95,Toyota,Emina,2200,,
2600,Mar-95,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2541,Mar-95,TOYOTA,LUCIDA,2200,SILVER,67320
2658,Mar-95,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2623,Jun-95,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2319,Jul-95,TOYOTA,EMINA LUXURY,2200,DARK BLUE,61786
2617,Jun-96,Toyota,Emina,2200,,
2294,Apr-96,TOYOTA,LUCIDA LUXURY,2200,BLUE,115532
2534,Nov-96,TOYOTA,LUCIDA,2200,SILVER,87431
2712,Feb-97,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2603,Apr-97,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2646,Jul-97,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2586,Sep-97,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2708,Feb-97,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2493,Feb-92,TOYOTA,EMINA,2200,GUN METAL,112185
2437,Jan-92,TOYOTA,LUCIDA,2200,SILVER,101471
2722,,TOYOTA,LUCIDA,2200,,
2121,Oct-92,TOYOTA,EMINA,2200,BURGANDY,86307
2655,Mar-93,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2653,Jun-93,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2702,Mar-93,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2604,Jul-93,Toyota,Emina,2200,,
2636,Jun-93,Toyota,Emina,2200,,
2555,Oct-94,TOYOTA,EMINA,2200,GREEN,87120
2070,Dec-94,TOYOTA,Lucida X,2200,DARK GREEN,104977
2353,Feb-95,TOYOTA,EMINA X,2200,DARK  BLUE,113643
2490,Feb-95,TOYOTA,EMINA,2200,DK BLUE,95266
2595,Jan-96,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2551,Feb-96,TOYOTA,EMINA,2200,BLUE,107958
2721,,TOYOTA,LUCIDA,2200,,
2639,Oct-96,Toyota,Emina,2200,,
2648,Feb-97,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2598,Mar-97,Toyota,Emina,2500,,
2650,Feb-97,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2616,Dec-97,Toyota,Emina,2200,,
2601,Jun-98,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2610,Feb-99,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2424,Nov-92,TOYOTA,LUCIDA,2200,BURGANDY,108094
2638,Jan-93,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2661,Feb-93,Toyota,Emina,2200,,
2671,Mar-93,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2685,Oct-93,Toyota,Lucida,2200,,
2398,Nov-94,MITSUBISHI,FTO GPX,2000,BURGANDY,
1806,Feb-95,MITSUBISHI,FTO GR,2000,SILVER,98785
1553,Dec-94,MITSUBISHI,FTO GPX,2000,BLACK,78000
1809,Mar-95,MITSUBISHI,FTO GR,2000,WINE,110591
2455,Feb-95,MITUBISHI,FTO,2000,BLACK,
1554,Apr-95,MITSUBISHI,FTO,2000,BLACK,138002
2720,,HONDA,CRX,1800,,
2192,Mar-92,HONDA,CRX SIR,1600,BLACK,58259
1810,Apr-92,HONDA,CRX DEL SOL,1600,BLACK,112640
1663,Jul-92,HONDA,CRX DEL SOL,1600,RED,74449
2643,Jun-91,Nissan,Figaro,1000,,
2577,Jan-93,SUBARU,IMPREZA,2000,SILVER,111406
1807,Jun-94,SUBARU,IMPREZA WRX,2000,BLACK,95969
2394,Nov-94,SUBARU,IMPREZA WRX,2000,SILVER,100236
2573,Jan-95,SUBARU,IMPREZA,2000,WHITE,100418
2584,,Subaru,Impreza,2000,,
2673,Jul-95,Subaru,Impreza,2000,,
2460,Feb-96,SUBARU,IMPREZA,2000,SILVER,122413
2691,Mar-96,Subaru,Impreza,2000,,
2444,Dec-94,SUBARU,IMPREZA,2000,RED,100918
2441,Feb-95,SUBARU,IMPREZA,2000,RED,83939
2472,Dec-95,SUBARU,IMPREZA,2000,SILVER,122024
2657,Jul-93,Toyota,Supra,2000,,
2626,Dec-94,Toyota,Supra,3000,,
2645,Jan-95,Toyota,Supra,2000,,
2535,Feb-92,MITSUBISHI,STRADA,2500,RED/SILVER,128453
2563,Mar-92,MITSUBISHI,STRADA,2500,RED/SILVER,109506
2326,Nov-95,NISSAN,SERENA WAGON,2000,GREEN,104105
2717,Mar-97,Nissan,Serena,2200,,
2582,Aug-96,TOYOTA,PRADO,,,
2583,Jun-96,TOYOTA,PRADO,,,
2635,Feb-95,Toyota,Hi-Lux,3000,,
1655,Jan-95,TOYOTA,HILUX SURF SSR-V,3000,GREEN,119028
2700,Feb-95,Toyota,Hi-Lux,3000,,
2719,Dec-95,Toyota,Hi-Lux,3000,,
2596,Dec-95,Toyota,Hi-Lux,3000,,
2625,Jul-96,Toyota,Hi-Lux,3000,,
2651,Oct-96,Toyota,Hi-Lux,3000,,
2571,Jan-89,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO,2500,WHITE/GOLD,97198
2727,,TOYOTA,LANDCRUISER,,,
2299,Mar-92,TOYOTA,PRADO SX-5,2400,SILVER/GREY,140951
2641,Feb-91,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400,,
2630,Mar-91,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400,,
2674,Jun-91,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400,,
2407,Jul-91,TOYOTA,HILUX SURF SSR-LTD,2400,GUN METAL,116783
2606,Nov-91,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400,,
2632,Aug-92,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400,,
1659,Nov-92,TOYOTA,HILUX SURF SSR-X,2400,DK BLUE,116535
2701,Feb-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400,,
2585,Feb-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400,,
2692,Jul-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400,,
2690,Jan-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400,,
2476,Nov-92,TOYOTA,HILUX SURF,2400,BLUE,89010
2608,Nov-92,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400,,
2624,Feb-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400,,
2597,Feb-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400,,
2097,Feb-93,TOYOTA,HILUX SURF,2400,BLACK,83370
2660,Feb-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400,,
2592,Jan-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400,,
2679,Mar-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400,,
2642,Apr-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400
2696,Mar-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2200
2618,Aug-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400
2589,Jun-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400
2684,Jul-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400
2688,Aug-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400
2629,Aug-93,Toyota,Hi-Lux,2400
2695,,Toyota,Estima,2200
2723,,MITSUBISHI,DELICA,2800
2631,Mar-95,Mitsubishi,Delica,2500
2644,Feb-95,Mitsubishi,Delica,2500
2615,Feb-95,Mitsubishi,Delica,2800
2649,Apr-95,Mitsubishi,Delica,2500
2678,Aug-95,Mitsubishi,Delica,2500
2620,Dec-95,Mitsubishi,Delica,2800
2612,Jan-96,Mitsubishi,Delica,2800
2621,Jan-96,Mitsubishi,Delica,2800,,
2591,Jul-96,Mitsubishi,Delica,2800,,
2672,Mar-95,Mitsubishi,Delica,2500,,
2703,Oct-95,Mitsubishi,Space gear,2800,,
2697,May-95,Nissan,Mistral,2500,,
2560,Jul-95,HONDA,ODYSSEY,2100,DARK BLUE,72729
2559,Sep-96,HONDA,ODYSSEY,2100,SILVER,78206
2627,Jan-93,Nissan,Pulsar,2000,,
2699,Oct-00,Toyota,Vitz,1000,,
2686,Jun-95,Mazda,Bongo,2500,,
2665,Sep-95,Mazda,Bongo,2200,,
2687,Nov-95,Mazda,Bongo,2500,,
2656,Feb-97,Mazda,Bongo,2200,,
2305,Dec-95,MAZDA,FRIENDEE RF-V,2500,GREEN,113327
2422,Jan-97,MAZDA,FRIENDEE,2500,SILVER,163092
2539,Oct-95,MAZDA,FRIENDEE BONGO,2500,GREEN,65692
2285,Mar-96,MAZDA,FRIENDEE RF-V,2500,GREEN,85742
2011,Feb-96,Mazda,Friendee,2500,SILVER,100248
2680,Dec-96,Mazda,Bongo,2500,,
2587,Dec-96,Mazda,Friendee,2500,,
2545,Dec-96,MAZDA,FRIENDEE BONGO,2500,BLACK,68294
2302,Feb-98,MAZDA,FRIENDEE RF-V,2500,SILVER,110805
1546,Sep-92,TOYOTA,CELICA CONVERTIBLE,2000,BLACK,110500
2659,Feb-96,Toyota,Celica,2000,,
2564,Apr-97,TOYOTA,IPSUM,2000,BLUE/SILVER,80691
2677,Jan-95,Isuzu,Big-Horn,3100,,
2728,,ISUZU,BIGHORN,3100,,
1621,Oct-92,ISUZU,BIGHORN,3000,GUNMETAL,88469
1597,Jan-95,ISUZU,BIGHORN,3100,GUNMETAL,117938
2654,Mar-95,Isuzu,Big-Horn,3100,,
2726,,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO,2500,,
2724,,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO,2500,,
2050,Jul-91,Mitsubishi,Pajero XRI,2500,BROWN/GOLD,136014
2619,Jul-91,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2664,Jul-91,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2590,Aug-91,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2676,Oct-91,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2594,Dec-91,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2640,Feb-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2614,Aug-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2028,Sep-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero XRII,2500,RED/SILVER,85574
2713,May-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2369,Jan-93,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO XRII,2500,RED/SILVER,132814
2576,Jan-93,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO,2500,BLUE/SILVER,104806
2021,Apr-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero XRII,2500,BROWN/GOLD,138456
2662,Mar-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2666,Apr-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2496,Feb-93,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO XRII,2500,BLUE/SILVER,103366
2637,Jan-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2622,Jun-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2693,Jun-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2670,Sep-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2800,,
2593,Feb-95,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2800,,
2663,Feb-95,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2800,,
2694,Mar-95,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2800,,
2675,Jun-95,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2800,,
1594,Mar-95,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO XRII,2800,GREEN/SILVER,109671
2503,Jun-95,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO XRII,2800,BLUE/SILVER,109273
2292,Oct-95,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO XRII,2800,GREEN/SILVER,120015
1561,Jan-93,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO MMC,2500,GREEN/GOLD,102505
2681,Aug-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2181,Mar-91,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,GOLD/GREEN,180536
1788,Feb-91,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,SILVER/BLUE,106891
2329,Feb-91,MITSUBSHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,GOLD/BROWN,116013
2284,Apr-91,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO XR,2500,BROWN/GOLD,132298
2487,,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO,2500,GOLD/BROWN,87992
2698,May-91,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2042,Jul-91,Mitsubishi,Pajero Exceed,2500,GOLD/BROWN,101712
1589,Jul-91,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,GOLD/BROWN,104717
1483,Nov-91,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO XR,2500,DK BLUE,84091
2003,Dec-91,Mitsubishi,Pajero Exceed,2500,GOLD/GREEN,121721
1586,Jan-92,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO,2500,BROWN/GOLD,140800
1838,Apr-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero Exceed,2500,GOLD/GREEN,114095
2166,Apr-92,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO XR2 WIDE,2500,BLUE/SILVER,101569
2599,Jun-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2689,Jun-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
1579,Jun-92,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,GOLD/GREEN,101274
1592,Sep-92,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,SILVER/BLUE,130380
2711,Jul-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2718,Sep-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2113,Nov-92,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO,2500,BLUE,101971
1555,Sep-92,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,SILVER/BLUE,179898
2227,Sep-92,MISTUBISHI,PAJERO XR,2500,BLUE,106531
2327,Sep-92,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,GOLD/GREEN,145393
1590,Sep-92,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,GOLD/GREEN,137750
2633,Sep-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2669,Oct-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2047,Oct-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero Exceed,2500,GOLD/GREEN,178463
2613,Oct-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
1582,Oct-92,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,GOLD/GREEN,136997
1831,Oct-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero Exceed,2500,GOLD/GREEN,109218
2538,Nov-92,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,GOLD/GREEN,127701
2716,Nov-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2682,Nov-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2709,Dec-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2553,Dec-92,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,GOLD/GREEN,128705
2602,Dec-92,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
1599,Dec-92,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,GOLD/BROWN,124062
2532,Jan-93,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,GOLD/WHITE,100631
1801,Jan-93,MITSUBSIHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,GOLD/GREEN,112990
2667,Feb-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2607,Feb-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2707,Feb-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2336,Mar-93,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2500,GOLD/GREEN,114563
1973,Mar-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,GREEN/GOLD,163222
2258,Mar-95,MITSUBISHI,PJERO EXCEED,2500,GOLD/GREEN,113026
2588,Jul-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2628,Mar-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2683,Apr-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2715,Apr-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2710,Jun-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2652,May-93,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2500,,
2725,,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO,2500,,
2578,Jun-93,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO,2500,SILVER/BLUE,112895
2179,Sep-93,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO SUPER EXCEED,2800,SILVER/WHITE,175535
2580,Jun-94,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO,2800,SILVER/GREEN,127716
2704,Dec-94,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2800,,
2362,Mar-95,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO S/EXCEED,2800,SILVER/WHITE,101105
2609,Feb-95,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2800,,
2705,Jul-95,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2800,,
1733,Sep-95,MITSUBISHI,PAJERO EXCEED,2800,SILVER/WHITE,106510
2714,Dec-95,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2800,,
2706,Jun-96,Mitsubishi,Pajero,2800,,
2668,May-93,Mitsubishi,GTO,2000,,
2331,Dec-94,MITSUBISHI,GTO GLASS TOP,3000,BLACK,

Lithgow Sons & Partners, The Auction Houses, Station Road, Middlesborough. Tel: 01642 710158. Wednesday 7th April at 11am; a sale of office furniture and equipment. Taking place at The Auction Houses.

Frank Hill, 18 Market Place, Hull, Humberside. Tel: 01964 630531. Saturday 10th April; a sale of farm machinery, implements, new timber, tools, container grown shrubs, trees, and garden ornaments. Taking place at The Cattle Market, Dunswell, Hull.

Gilbert Baitson, The Edwardian Auction Galleries, Wiltshire Road, Hull. Tel: 01482 500500. Wednesday 14th April; a sale of the entire contents of a budget hotel. Taking place in Hull, call for further details.

CJM Asset Management, Duchess House, Queensway Court, North Lincs. Tel: 01724 334411. Thursday 15th April at 11am; a sale of CNC and conventional woodworking machinery, and the contents of a cabinetmaker's workshop. Taking place at Fairholme Lane, Wawne, Hull.

Team Auctions, 60 Bentinck Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Tel: 0191 226 0670. Sales of commercial catering equipment at 11am. Thursday 15th April at Hatfields, Ash Hill Road, Doncaster. Friday 16th April at Teesdale Sports Centre, Strathmore Road, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham.

Frank Marshall, Chelford Agricultural Centre, Cheshire. Tel: 01625 861122. Saturday 17th April; a sale of agricultural machinery, tractors, trailers etc. Taking place at Horton Head Farm, Horton, Nr. Leek.

Stevens Champion & Slater, The Salerooms, 61 Water Street, Birmingham. Tel: 0121 200 2206. Tuesday 20th April at 11am; a sale of control panel manufacturers plant and machinery, stock, office furniture, vehicles etc. Taking place at Unit 8 Lygon Buildings, Peartree Lane, Dudley.

Smith Hodgkinson & McGinty, The Auction Centre, Chorley, Lancs. Tel: 01257 263 633. Tuesday 20th April from 9am to 4.30pm; a tender sale of the contents of an engineering factory including sheet metal working machinery, welding, assembly and powder paint coating equipment, also general office furniture. Taking place at Finchley Avenue, Mildenhall, Suffolk.

Singletons, West Point, 501 Chester Road, Old Trafford. Tel: 0161 876 0748. Wednesday 21st April at 12noon; a sale of woodworking, cable drum and paper tube manufacturing plant and equipment. Taking place at Randles Road, Knowsley Business Park, Knowsley.

News

The chancellor has announced that in an effort to promote property auctions as a means of buying and selling property, no stamp duty will be levied on properties sold at auction from 1st May for one year.

There will be some exceptions to this which are listed here:
http://www.eigroup.co.uk/chancellor

LiveAuctioneers Brings Traditional Auctions to eBay

Julian Ellison of LiveAuctioneers.com knows more about eBay Live
Auctions http://www.ebayliveauctions.com than anyone in the
industry. He started at iCollector, a company formed to bring auction
houses to the Internet by Webcasting their "real life" auctions on
eBay's Live Auction service.

Ellison left iCollector and formed his own company,
LiveAuctioneers.com http://www.liveauctioneers.com, in late
2002, providing auction houses with the same service. "We were
profitable within the first 3 months of operation," he said. "We
currently represent 128 auction houses in the U.S. and 3 or 4 in the
UK."

Over the years, auction houses have adopted technology to increase the
number of bidders. First, they added phone bidding, then fax. With
Internet bidding, auction houses can generate interest, increase the
bidding, and ultimately give consignors a higher price. A look at
LiveAuctioneers' Web site shows the auction houses that have signed on
to its system <http://www.liveauctioneers.com/clients.html>.
Ellison explained how it works. The auction house sends
LiveAuctioneers a file via FTP containing catalog information:
basically, the descriptions of the items along with numbered JPEG
files of the photographs. LiveAuctioneers takes the files and put them
through a parsing program they've developed. It puts the data into an
editing suite in the back-end of the LiveAuctioneers Web site, which
the client can access so they can make changes and add more images if
they like.

Ten days before the start of the real-life auction, the items begin
appearing in search results on eBay.com. Bidders can peruse an auction
catalog online, place absentee bids, and bid real-time against floor
bidders. The day of the sale, a designated Internet clerk on the
showroom floor uses a computer with high-speed connection to feed
online bids to the auctioneer in real time.

At the end of the auction, LiveAuctioneers produces an Excel
spreadsheet giving the client the lot numbers, descriptions, hammer
prices and buyers premium. They send an End of Auction email to
winning bidders containing their invoices within 24 hours.
What about nuisance bidders, or non-paying bidders? Ellison said his
company developed a system to report non-paying bidders to eBay, which
suspends them after they receive a certain number of complaints. He
said the problem of non-paying bidders is less than one percent on
auctions powered by LiveAuctioneers.

Ellison said there are many reasons why auction houses should use his
service as opposed to going onto eBay Live Auctions directly. The
LiveAuctioneers program automatically translates the descriptions into
four languages, they accept 10 images of each item, and there are
cross-merchandising tools designed to keep the visitor in the auction
house's catalog. In addition, if a potential bidder asks a question,
the auction house can create a condition report so all bidders can see
the answer, reducing the number of questions from bidders.

It's all about confidence, according to Ellison. Utilizing the eBay
platform directly only gives clients access to email customer service.
But auction houses are traditional businesses, Ellison said, they
don't want to get help via email. Using LiveAuctioneers, clients can
pick up the phone, and they develop a relationship with
LiveAuctioneers.

As for the cost, there is no additional charge to auction houses that
go with LiveAuctioneers versus going directly to eBay Live Auctions.
This is because LiveAuctioneers was "grandfathered" into a deal that
iCollector first established with eBay. eBay charges auction houses
$1,500 per catalog or per 5-week period, plus a 5% commission on items
sold through eBay bidders. LiveAuctioneers splits the fees with eBay.
LiveAuctioneers has a training applet that shows the auction house how
to use the system. Or, for $500/day plus travel expenses,

LiveAuctioneers will send a representative to the auction house for
personal training.

eBay Live Auctions is for auctioneers who want their cake and eat it
too: they can continue to sell at "real-life" auctions while
simultaneously broadcasting them over the Internet. It's a small
world, after all.

Ian Steiner
Auctionbytes

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The Positive Club

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot. Why? Because when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

Some people get frozen by that fear of failure. They get it from peers or from just thinking about the possibility of a negative results. They might be afraid of looking bad or being embarrassed. I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it. I don't believe you can achieve anything by being passive. I'm not thinking about anything except what I'm trying to accomplish. Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success. If it turns out my best isn't good enough, then at least I'll never be able to look back and say I was too afraid to try. Failure always made me try harder the next time.
That's why my advice has always been to "think positive" and find fuel in any failure. Sometimes failure actually just gets you closer to where you want to be. If I'm trying to fix a car, every time I try something that doesn't work, I'm getting closer to finding the answer. The greatest inventions in the world had hundreds of failures before the answers were found.

I think fear sometimes comes from a lack of focus or concentration. If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn't have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I show free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform. After that you can't control anything anyway. It's out of your hands, so don't worry about it. -- Michael Jordan

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