Forbes.com has put together a short list of auction venues, markets and retail shops where you're guaranteed to find that one-of-a-kind vintage item.
Andale Chief Executive Munjal Shah characterizes the company's relationship with auction venues such as eBay as symbiotic rather than parasitic, suggesting that if Andale's tools help "automate selling and if we can help the largest sellers sell more, that only helps eBay".
Soon, all things Japanese became a specific lure and the country auction expanded to venues nationally and finally abroad.
Smaller auction sites and venues like Etsy also have a few suits for sale at any time.
Toward the end of the day, a Blockbuster adviser, Neil Augustine of the investment bank Rothschild, proposed moving the auction to a different venue than offices of Cadawalader, Wickersham & Taft, which is advising Mr. Icahn.
Even more surprisingly, my local news station -- on Long Island, where only two state senators, Brian Foley and Craig Johnson, voted in support of marriage equality -- covered this story and may also follow up now that the auction has a new venue.
In total, the Sotheby's sales this month topped the preauction estimate of more than 2.8 billion Hong Kong dollars and underscored how important Hong Kong has become as a venue for auctions of this kind.
Christie's is the most prominent among them, and has a casual partnership with ART HK to hold its spring auctions in the same venue, at about the same time.
Ken's choice of The Aquarium L-13 gallery as a venue for the art auction for his re-election campaign is inspirational.
Pieces other than superlative commodes or secrétaires by the most famous cabinetmakers often fail to make it at Drouot, the Paris auction house, by far the best venue in that category.
