Washington Times EDITORIAL: Cheap stamps stamp out wildlifeWashington Times, DCBy | Sunday, April 12, 2009 Gene Mueller's column on increasing the price of the federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp omitted vital information that readers should have ("Duck stamp hike latest tax assault on hunters," Sports, … More: continued here
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Read More »eBay selling Madoff’s Mets tickets ($2,900, anyone?) (CNET)
Disgraced Ponzi pusher Bernie Madoff is a very big New York Mets fan. Now, he has been forced to put his precious tickets up for sale on eBay. Bidding for the first game closes Sunday. More: continued here
Read More »Madoff’s Citi Field Tickets Bid To $2,955 On eBay (WCBS-TV New York)
Bernard Madoff’s seats at Citi Field are fetching quite a price. The two tickets for Monday night’s ballpark opener owned by Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities were bid up to $2,955 by 5 p.m. EDT Saturday on eBay. Seats 5-6 in the eighth row of section 11, just to the …
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The founders of Web telephone service Skype, currently owned by eBay Inc, are interested in bidding for the company they sold some four years ago, according to a media report. More: continued here
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The European men who created Skype and sold it to eBay for billions may have another trick up their sleeve: buying it back. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, have approached several private-equity firms and are pooling their own… More: continued here
Read More »Bernard Madoff’s New York Mets tickets bid to US$2,955 on eBay (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
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