It sold contests.com in June for $380,000 after sitting on it for many years.
As we said, it sold contests.com for $380,000, which also seemed cheap at the time when you compare it to something like candy.com, which sold for $3 million in June.
[C4.] 'Sell' Contest for a Brokerage Firm After Sean McGowan, Gerard Klauer Mattison's research director, found no sell recommendations at his brokerage firm in a recent survey, he began a contest.
Far be it from me to dub a professional boxing match a freak show, but clearly Valuev's size was what sold the contest, and Sky never shut up about it.
In 1963 Mr. Griffin had a deal with NBC to develop a game show, but despaired of selling any knowledge contest to the network in the wake of the 1950's quiz show scandal.
It does have that Harlem Globetrotters feel in which names are used to sell meaningless contests.
In the first episode, Blagojevich carved out a worst-case scenario by letting the food get cold in a hamburger-selling contest while he attempted to convince the customers that he was innocent of all pending corruption charges.
There's a short-selling contest, too.
An auction may be more revealing of a candidate's potential than a "beauty contest", but selling a monopoly levies a tax on phone users.
It will be sold as a contest between stagnation and keeping Georgia competitive, and it will not be an easy sell: according to Mr Reed, polling data show the best result for supporters would be a narrow victory.
What was striking about the 10 finalists -- apart from the fact that all were white, and all but one male -- was how conventional their ambitions were, and how the contest sold careerism as a form of rebellion.
