MIAMI, Fla. — The team at BidaBing.com announces the launch of a new real estate auctioning application and nicknames their agent members “BidaBingers.” REALTORS(R), buyers, lenders and sellers are all invited to list and bid on foreclosures, short sales, estate sales and other distressed properties.

HONOLULU, Hawaii — In a slow real estate market, people get creative to sell their property. So Honolulu real estate brokerage firm Elite Pacific Properties is bringing to Hawaii a technique that is rapidly gaining popularity throughout the US: real estate auctions. Elite, which specializes in upscale real estate, has organized Hawaii’s biggest ever multi-property auction, to be held at the Hawaii Convention Center in Waikiki on July 14th from 10am-3pm.

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — In 1947 Amon Baucom started a landscaping business with little more than a wheelbarrow and a shovel. Sixty years later Baucom’s Nursery, the great grandchild of Amon Baucom’s landscaping enterprise, is still a family oriented business, with multiple locations in North and South Carolina and Florida, and a consistent ranking as one of the top 100 greenhouse growers in the U.S.

LENOX, Mass. — Boston’s annual WGBH-TV auction, the largest community-driven event in New England, has a book with notable signatures on the auction block this year signed by Senator Kerry, Billy Rodgers, Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit and Catherine Ndereba, notes author Kathleen Cleary. “If This Is Heaven, I Am Going to be a Good Boy, the Tommy Leonard Story” (ISBN-13: 978-0595356980), will be auctioned.

ROCKINGHAM, N.C. — A North Carolina author has found a unique way to market his writings to potential publishers. Steven Blood has put the manuscript for his children’s book “The City of Lost Socks” on the online auction website eBay in what seems to be the only auction of its kind.

LONDON, U.K. — The car that drew international attention and broke eBay records with over 10 million visitors to its auction page in May 2005, is now going to be put back on the auction block by GoldenPalace.com, the winners of the now famous collectible.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In the world of real-estate, it’s all about location. However when the location is online, the old rules no longer apply. That is what happened to Kim and Dave Snoddy, the owners of Oldham County Nursery. When they decided that it was time to liquidate their 127 acre nursery facility, they didn’t turn to one of the hundreds of local auctioneers and auction houses. The Snoddy’s got online and looked west - 2000 miles west to California and the online auction company West Auctions.

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. — Simply Sapphires will auction off a 18 kt gold and sapphire jewelry suite (necklace, bracelet and earrings) to benefit Doberman Rescue Unlimited (DRU), announced John Tolliver, President and CEO of Simply Sapphires LLC. The auction will be held on the eBay Auction website January 29 - February 7, 2007.

YORK, Pa. — BidTurf.com, providers of one of the newest online trading opportunities, today unveiled its person-to-person, full featured auction service. The online auction will serve as a trading platform for users to easily browse, buy or sell virtually anything online with no listing or final sales fees.

CLIFTON, N.J. — Internet casino GoldenPalace.com expanded their collection of weird and wacky pop-culture items this weekend when they bought the first T.M.X. Elmo doll off the production line for $4200. Proceeds going to charity.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — GoldenPalace.com made room in their ever-increasing collection of pop-culture oddities by purchasing an item that brings new meaning to the term “celebrity crap.” The online casino bought Suri Cruise’s Bronzed Baby Poop for $10,000, which will be going to the Kristin Brooks Hope Center.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — The Capla Kesting Gallery announced today that the Daniel Edwards sculpture of Suri Cruise’s first poop in bronze, which has been covered internationally in the press this week and was the most e-mailed photo on Yahoo! on Thursday, is now back on eBay. The auction will benefit the March of Dimes charity.