Auction

a selling perspective and its different barriers to enter. Despite Amazon.com and eBay.com are direct competitors, they offer different values to their customers and sellers. For example, eBay is seen as an auction house since its core method of selling and buying goods it’s through auctions while Amazon was trying to replicate a catalogue in an on-line format (Krishnamurthy,…

move” this work also reflecting her societal link. The Guerilla Girls are a group of anonymous feminists that fight racism and sexism in the art world. Two of their works include, “How many works by women artists were in the Andy Warhol and Termaine auctions at Sotheby’s?”and “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met,” these all representing the Guerrilla Girls strong connection with society and the issues surrounding equality and racism. Cindy Sherman an American photographer…

The seventeen-year-old daughter of a powerful General of the Valorian Empire, Kestrel leads a fairy sheltered life in the recently conquered lands of the Herrani. Like all Valorian nobles, man and woman alike, Kestrel is trained in basic military arts and self-defense, but her true passions are for stratagem and music. Kestrel has a brilliant, cunning mind honed for games and political power; a talent her Valorian father wishes she’d hone by enlisting for the military. In this society, when an…

The buyers all congregated around the platform preparing themselves for the bidding. While the white bidders thought of these auctions as means of business and property ownership, the slaves felt a devastating crash of emotions as their lives were put in the hands of their abusers. It is clear that the buyers had no remorse for their actions. Otherwise, they would have felt compassion…

Large offerings of food, drinks and various goods, rows of empty chairs endlessly waiting to be filled, and mass amounts of people enjoying a live performance; these are all commonly seen sights at the annual Hungry Ghost Festival . In Malaysia and Singapore the Hungry Ghost Festival, also known as Zhong Yuan Jie, takes place during the seventh month of the lunar calendar. During this 'ghost' month, souls who suffer in the underworld are believed to walk freely among the living. The doors of…

Today, many people define society based on the modernity and postmodernity movements. The definition of the modernity movement lies in the characteristics of modern societies that have capitalistic economies and democratic political structures that are highly industrialized. Postmodernity is almost the same as modernity, but the communication of technology and process of information included in the postmodernity movement differentiates it from modernity. Loosely stated, postmodernity is the…

should be fit for the purpose. In the 55 Section, guarantees as to fitness for any disclosed purpose have stated that if a person (the supplier) supplies, in trade or commerce, goods to a consumer; and the supply does not occur by way of sale by auction; there is a guarantee that the goods are reasonably fit for any disclosed purpose, and for any purpose for which the supplier represents that they are reasonably…

Hello all, I've played here for a long time; I've been involved heavily in auctioning since that time; and I have a good grasp of the servers economy. In fact, since I've played here I have made over 700,000 gold in auctions. Sadly, I don't have near that amount still in my possession. :D With that said, I don't know whether you realize it or not, but allowing players to purchase gems with honor points has effectively destroyed the Jewelcrafting profession. I, and several others JC's with…

After participating in Date Auction and attending other VSA events such as VSOUL's potluck and UNO VSA's paper lantern night, I am motivated in connecting with and learning more about other VSA's in the Gulf Coast, and actively participating in creating a community between each VSA. The best part about being in TUVA is the amount of doors that have opened from meeting the vast Vietnamese community that exists in Louisiana alone. I envision TUVA to grow in the VSA communities in Louisiana by…

they were individually falling into deeper and deeper debts. Furthermore, since anyone could post the bail for an Indian any random person could just go to the auction and basically buy their very own drunken slave for the week. In a letter written by the administrator of Rancho Los Alamitos, he asks his boss to allow someone to go to the auction and buy five or six Indians. Ultimately this just goes to show the type of abuse the natives had to endure in these developing stages of our…