| Sitting Back and Waiting The cooling market has curbed the once-endless appetites of buyers. nytimes.com |
Sites Ask Users to Spend to Save Swoopo.com sells a variety of products in auctions that typically top out at a small fraction of the retail price, but charges a fee for each bid. nytimes.com |
Market for Luxury Goods Shifts Further to the East Both Christie’s and Sotheby’s say that within the past few years Hong Kong, their hub in Asia, has emerged as a top location for sales of jewelry, gems and wines. nytimes.com |
In Monterey, Classics Turn Bankable More than $170 million of automobiles, some elegant beyond words and others as raucous as college students on spring break, changed hands. nytimes.com |
Fashion on eBay, Spoken by Annabel Tollman The auction site’s most visible stylist-to-the-masses is attempting to rebrand it as a style destination. nytimes.com |