Famous Quotes & Sayings

In 166,000 auctions and $25 million worth of property we've sold on eBay we've never had a stolen item because any crook with brains in his head isn't going to take stuff to someone who photographs them and puts them on public display.

Michael K. Powell

High court review will protect the integrity of the FCC's auctions program, which Congress has chosen as the best method of assigning scarce and precious spectrum resources to those that will put them to their most productive use,

Whether that's bad news for the upcoming auctions depends on whether you take a cup-half-empty or cup-half-full perspective.

Depending on competition from other bidders, you can generally buy properties at public auctions for 25 to 35 percent below market value.

This is going to make it hard for eBay to win in Asia. It totally reshapes the landscape for auctions in Asia.

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

We're putting out feelers and will be watching Christie's closely to see what we can learn, ... But since holding auctions in China has to be done through intermediaries we will see how things develop.

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

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.

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.

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

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.