As for Mr. Katcoff, he is sold.
(In New York, he is sold at Saks Fifth Avenue).
However, if he is sold as chattel down the river, the estate can recover some money.
But the key element in Liverpool's favour is Torres's long-term contract that means even if he is sold next summer he would still attract a considerable price.
Typically, if a thoroughbred is no longer earning his keep, he is sold to the horse-meat speculators who roam the back-stable areas of racetracks.
Under contract for two more years, he has been linked with a move back to Major League Soccer, with the Vancouver Whitecaps first in line if he is sold.
Matthew Higgs, being the supreme salesman he is, sold all the works from his White Column's gallery within an hour of opening, and the Gagosian likewise sold all its Ed Ruscha paintings within a similar timeframe.
John Tinkham, a k a the Firewood Guy, sells everything from oak to white birch from his Web outlet based in Londonderry, N.H., but when it comes to his own wood stove, he is sold on hickory.
Even ball clubs don't succeed in keeping one set of players forever, but when player goes to another club he is sold to it and former owners get cash payment.
There, on the auction docks of Pensacola, Fla., he is sold into slavery, made to work for a brutal innkeeper in the Mississippi Territory and from time to time put on display so travelers can gape at his tiny stature, his finely sharpened teeth.
Astro Boy is a robot created by a scientist whose own child was killed in a car accident; when the robo-child disappoints his creator by his failure to grow up, he is sold to a circus with a cruel ringmaster (another "A.I". parallel), but eventually finds happiness with a kindly professor who teaches him to fight crime (and who builds him a loving little robot sister).
