Sentences with phrase «even go to the auction»

It was smallish and company title so he refused to even go to the auction.

Not exact matches

Instead they dropped 13.4 % from last year's total to only $ 121.3 million, even though 14 % more cars went through the auction this year.

Even worse, Pontiac was forced to auction off the Silverdome during the recession to avoid going bankrupt.

Like Powell, Martin also attached net neutrality conditions to telecom mergers, and went even further by attaching lifetime net neutrality conditions to parts of the 4G spectrum that it auctioned off in 2008.

before proceeding to present one of the most celebratory auction items of the evening: one year of Moët & Chandon Imperial — 365 bottles, one for each day — which auctioned for $ 15,000, with all funds going to USTA Serves!

Under this plan, permits are auctioned, but the revenues do not go to the government; they go back to citizens in the form of dividends, distributed equally among everyone, perhaps even wired directly to people's bank accounts or debit cards.

The missing radio that is going to cost $ 1,500 to replace, those worn seats and carpets, even the incorrect motor look great when it's a red blob under bright lights, especially if you have been bidding with the help of auction juice.

Everything You Need to Know About the Nahmads — Art writer Randy Kennedy has teamed up with two of the New York Times's veteran metro reporters to pen a sweeping portrait of the Nahmad clan, a famously quiet $ 3 billion art - powerhouse family — with a history of going after a third of the lots in evening auctions, only to put them in storage to resell later — that has entered an unwelcome spotlight ever since dealer Helly Nahmad's alleged gambling ring exploded in their faces.

Her paintings have recently sold for the mid - to high - six figures at auction; in fall 2016, Cerulean (1965) went for $ 970,000 at a Phillips evening sale.

If your pockets are deep, or even if your pockets have holes in, an auction house is an interesting place to visit in the run - up to a sale, when works go on show for a few days before they change hands.

And then, even though a disconcerting majority of the auction brass on the rostrum declined to even pick up their phone to talk to bidders on the Twombly, specialist Bame Fierro March came in at # 5.2 million, causing the Nahmads to come in at # 5.3 million, and after another man next to him came in, March had to go to # 5.55 million, right about the low estimate, securing the sale.

«A little can go a long way in Haiti,» David Zwirner said to a flock of press gathered at his gallery on Tuesday for a walkthrough of «Artists for Haiti,» the special sale of artworks that he organized for a benefit auction at Christie's in New York on the evening of Sept. 22, 2011.

But the bidding remained tempered throughout the rest of the night, and even saw a few stumbles: a late painting of two faces on a collaged background by Jean - Michel Basquiat, who has been a market sure thing in recent months, failed to sell at its $ 5 million - $ 7 milllion estimate, while Cady Noland — who holds the world auction record for a living woman artist ($ 6.6 million)-- had a section of chain - link fence go unsold at $ 500,000 - $ 700,0000.

The boutique auction house has traditionally held its evening contemporary art sale after the giants Sotheby's and Christie's, but this time around, hoping to get buyers before they have spent their money, it decided to go first.

Even now, Ms. Goodman says, he has increased his prices, at her urging, only so much to make up for that disparity and discourage speculation; new paintings that would probably go for $ 20 million at auction are priced at well under half that, closer to $ 5 million.

He also said,» I would strongly urge you not to over-bid on a SNES Classic on any of the auction sites,» noting that consumers shouldn't need to pay more than the console's $ 99 MSRP, even if they go the eBay route.

The banks are in way for way more than its likely to go for at auction so can I assume that the bank will buy it back at this auction and no one is even wasting their time with this particular property because of this.

He hadn't even planned to bid; he just went to the auction to get some tips on how to improve his own auctioneering techniques.

Even notable buildings such as Boston's John Hancock tower have gone the auction route, giving heightened visibility to a selling method that's been more commonly associated with residential real estate in recent years.

I go there to auctions but I was used to Eagle River, Wisconsin and never even thought that I could find this closer to home.