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The 5 Hottest New Website Auction Markets: Where and How You Can Profit

The following is a guest post by Dave Slutzkin, CEO, Flippa.com. They don’t call it the World Wide Web for nothing. But how many small online business owners are taking advantage of markets beyond the English- or Spanish-speaking worlds? You don’t need to be multilingualâ€”or a multinationalâ€”to tap into the markets that are slowly emerging […]

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Wyoming Town Sold for $900K

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Buford, Wyoming, the town for sale we mentioned last month has sold for $900,000. The buyers were two businessmen from Vietname. MSNBC: Until recently, the town’s one resident was Don Sammons, 61, who managed the town’s liquor sales, hardware sales, gas pump and hot dog warmer. Sammons moved months ago, and the phone to the

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Buford, Wyoming for Sale

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Buford, Wyoming, population now 1, will be auctioned at noon April 5. Don Sammons, the town’s sole resident, has put the town up for auction with Williams and Williams, an auction company based in Oklahoma City. This will be the company’s first town to auction, said Amy Bates, the companyâ€™s chief marketing officer. Buford sits

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Original Monopoly Game Sold For $150K

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The board game Monopoly was originally a round oilcloth 33 inches in diameter. The earliest ever version of the board game Monopoly has sold for almost $150,000 in the UK. The game is the only one of 5,000 made by Monopoly inventor Charles Darrow in 1933 to survive to present day. Heating engineer Darrow drew

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This Lincoln Penny Just Sold for $1,700,000

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According to Neatorama, this is a one-of-a-kind penny, resulting from a production error at the U.S. mint in Denver. It was struck in bronze rather than the zinc-coated steel normally used during the WWII era. About 20 such errors are known from the Philadelphia and San Francisco mints, but this is the only one known

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Buy Most of a Tourist Town

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Have you ever wanted to own your very own tourist town? A place famous for its antique shops, civil war memorabilia and quirky attractions? On July 22nd, much of Strasburg, Virginia will be up for bid including the former Museum of American Presidents and the Jeane Dixon Museum. The auction is a result of the

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Turning Pennies Into Millions

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Reuters: Weronika Cybulska never intended to stray from the corporate path. But when the recession hit and she lost her marketing job with a New York jewelry manufacturer, the recent MBA graduate set her sights on entrepreneurship, replicating an online auction site she saw thriving in her native Poland. The 28-year-old Ã©migrÃ© and her husband

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James Bond Car For Sale

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For sale: one Aston Martin Silver Birch DB5s. It’s not the most fuel efficient car available, but it does have a revolving license plate, a tire slasher, twin machine guns, rear oil sprayer, smoke screen, nail disperser, radar, retractable bullet-proof screen, and a passenger ejector seat. Oh yeah, and it’s had only one previous owner:

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