SANDBACH, CHESHIRE, UK / July 22 2008. iAuctionShop Ltd has formed a sponsorship relationship with the Cheshire branch of Shine Africa in The Gambia and will be promoting their work with children and schools in The Gambia.
Shine – Africa is a U.K. registered charity that helps support Nursery Education covering the age range of three to seven year olds in The Gambia, West Africa. As a charity it works closely with families, communities and the Gambian Education Department to assist Gambian Nursery Children.

Ian and Glynn Jones from Weaverham, Cheshire visited a nursery school in Mandirani when they were on holiday in 1996 and found that it was in desperate need of a new building and educational resources. The generosity of the Gambian people despite their poverty inspired them to raise funds on their return to England for them to build a school. The need for educational resources became more obvious and the gratitude of the people who see education as a gift rather than a right encouraged them to continue with the project. Funds continued through many people’s commitment and involvement and when the school was established with furniture and equipment Ian and Glynn realised they were able to assist other schools in the Gambia, as they too had a great need for the ‘gift of education’.
WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED SO FAR?
·     They have built and funded three nursery schools:
·     Mandinari Village Nursery School
·     Bundung Serrekunda Shine-Africa School
·     Saaba Shine –Africa Nursery School
·     They have upgraded 2 other nursery schools
·     Provided a village library at Mandinari
·     Upgraded the village clinic and provided equipment including baby scales, blood pressure monitors, stethoscopes, instruments for examining ears, eyes and throat, diabetic testing machine, crutches and medicine etc.
·     Have helped the local economy by providing locally made tables and chairs for the 3 nursery schools.
·     Provided school equipment for many nursery schools- exercise books, pens, pencils, crayons, reading books, counting equipment, footballs, various sized balls, children’s blackboards, chalk, teachers equipment, paper, visual aids for the children with number and alphabet cards, providing educational posters besides helping with much needed reading books.
·     Given out more than 3,500 mosquito nets.
·     Provided a clean, safe well for Mandinari
iAuctionShop Ltd’s aim is to help raise more funds that will directly affect the lives of Gambian children. A £3.50 gift of a mosquito net will save lives, and a £22 annual sponsorship of a child will provide two school uniforms, annual school fees and a mosquito net.
Further information may be found at http://www.rscollect.co.uk/Gambia/gambia_1.htm
iAuctionShop Ltd trades as R & S Collectables listing over 5,000 product lines at any one time - mainly in the antiques, collectables and replacement tableware marketplaces, although traditional toys and games, jewellery and home wares feature heavily in their catalogue. iAuctionShop lists across several internet sales venues;

http://www.iauctionshop.co.uk
http://www.rscollect.co.uk
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_dscm/202-0624567-7755039?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=iAuctionShop&Go.x=6&Go.y=12
http://www.specialistauctions.com/shop.php?userid=101862

Other services include tax-free shopping for customers outside the European Union and gift-wrapping options that can be selected at checkout.

iAuctionShop also markets items on behalf of a large number of clients. Notable sales have been c£6,200 for a Faberge vesta case, c£4,700 for a small collection of vintage Leica cameras and c£2,000 for a historically important Nagra IIc tape recorder.

Simon Russell / Director / 22 July 2008 / Cheshire, UK

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SANDBACH, CHESHIRE, UK / June 1 2008. iAuctionShop Ltd has been engaged by one of its clients to market a historically important Newman and Sinclair 35mm cine camera. It comes in working order and complete with three lenses, filters, original tripod and fitted case plus four additional magazines again in a fitted case.
Each main part is matched by serial number, (766). This was bought by an Edinburgh photographic dealer from the now-defunct Ferranti plc where it was employed in their film department.
Items included in kit:
·     Camera assembly serial number 766 twin clockwork motors and fitted magazine
·     2 inch lens serial number 766
·     4 inch lens serial number 766
·     6 inch lens serial number 766
·     Four filters (Kodak)
·     Original fitted case marked number 766
·     Original wooden tripod
·     Additional four magazines in original fitted leather case
Newman & Sinclair cameras were the choice of professional filmmakers all over the world. One accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on his ascent of Everest and Stanley Kubrick famously used four during the filming of A Clockwork Orange. Their unusual twin clockwork motors allowed a full 200 feet magazine to be filmed from a single wind.

iAuctionShop Ltd welcomes any inspection by appointment by interested parties including collectors and museums in advance of its being offered by public auction sometime during 2008 or 2009. Appointments can be made by telephone during normal UK business hours on 01270 767158, (UK), +44 1270 767158, (international), or by emailing sinclair@rscollect.co.uk

iAuctionShop Ltd trades as R & S Collectables listing over 5,000 product lines at any one time - mainly in the antiques, collectables and replacement tableware marketplaces, although traditional toys and games, jewellery and home wares feature heavily in their catalogue. iAuctionShop lists across several internet sales venues;

http://www.iauctionshop.co.uk
http://www.rscollect.co.uk
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_dscm/202-0624567-7755039?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=iAuctionShop&Go.x=6&Go.y=12
http://www.specialistauctions.com/shop.php?userid=101862

Other services include tax-free shopping for customers outside the European Union and gift-wrapping options that can be selected at checkout.

iAuctionShop also markets items on behalf of a large number of clients. Notable sales have been c£6,200 for a Faberge vesta case, c£4,700 for a small collection of vintage Leica cameras and c£2,000 for a historically important Nagra IIc tape recorder.

Simon Russell / Director / 01 June 2008 / Cheshire, UK

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SANDBACH, CHESHIRE, UK / July 12 2007. iAuctionShop has today removed its last listing from eBay. From a high of 6,500 product lines in 2005 and in common with many professional dealers, iAuctionShop is turning its back on eBay as a sales outlet.

Having been fully engaged members of the eBay community since 2002 and at one time running its full-time business almost entirely on eBay, iAuctionShop has finally removed its last listing from that site. iAuctionShop Ltd’s Managing Director Simon Russell stated “…it was a very straightforward decision to make in the end. Buyer apathy, ridiculous pricing expectations, fraud and ever increasing fees and tinkering from eBay’s strange management team combined to make the profitability of the eBay marketplace woefully poor. It was actually quite a sad day for us. My wife started the business part-time in 2004 and we enthusiastically embraced every innovation, idea or piece of advice that came out of eBay, opening a store, eventually upgrading it to Anchor level and investing thousands of man hours into making it into a great place for eBay buyers to browse. When eBay’s much reported removal of Stores in Search combined with the huge increase in Stores fees finally hit, the management team resolved that iAuctionShop’s relationship with eBay had to come to an end.

The margins being achieved by iAuctionShop on eBay had been steadily eroding from a high in 2004/2005 to the unacceptable levels being seen during 2007. Fewer visitors coupled with the attitude ‘I’ll only buy it if it’s really cheap’ and the ever-present threat of PayPal chargebacks by fraudulent buyers caused iAuctionShop’s management team to concentrate on its own websites and other on-line marketplaces where the company’s commitment to Customer Delight would be better appreciated. iAuctionShop Director Rebecca Russell read a well-researched article by David Steiner of www.auctionbytes.com titled ‘Data points to Problems on eBay.com’. Rebecca commented “The article’s content absolutely mirrored our own experience in the eBay marketplace over the past couple of years. We were receiving scores of emails and telephone calls every day telling us that our prices were too high as ‘one sold on eBay last month for a couple of pounds’, and ridiculous offer after offer at perhaps 10% of the listed price. eBay really had become the new car boot sale where everything has to go for pennies and customer service is not valued”.

At its peak on eBay, *iAuctionShop was the largest pottery and porcelain outlet in the UK as evidenced by eBay Pulse, listing some 6,500 product lines. These lines are now listed on www.rscollect.co.uk, www.iauctionshop.co.uk, www.specialistauctions.com and as an Amazon Merchants@ partner iAuctionShop on Amazon.

iAuctionShop Director Simon Russell intends writing a more detailed account of the ups and downs of his company’s experience of utilising eBay as a sales outlet and the methods that eBay has adopted to keep its sellers too busy to look outside the eBay marketplace. Please contact the author to reserve an advanced copy of this account.

iAuctionShop Ltd trades as R & S Collectables listing over 5,000 product lines at any one time - mainly in the antiques, collectables and replacement tableware marketplaces, although traditional toys and games, jewellery and home wares feature heavily in their catalogue. iAuctionShop lists across several internet sales venues;

http://www.iauctionshop.co.uk

http://www.rscollect.co.uk

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_dscm/202-0624567-7755039?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=iAuctionShop&Go.x=6&Go.y=12

http://www.specialistauctions.com/shop.php?userid=101862

Other services include tax-free shopping for customers outside the European Union and gift-wrapping options that can be selected at checkout.

iAuctionShop also markets items on behalf of a large number of clients. Notable sales have been c£6,200 for a Faberge vesta case and c£2,000 for a historically important Nagra IIc tape recorder.

iAuctionShop now offers a range of WeightWatchers products with free UK postage

SANDBACH, CHESHIRE, UK / June 08 2007. iAuctionShop now offers a growing range of WeightWatchers™ foods and books all with free UK postage and discounted international post.

iAuctionShop Ltd now offers a range of WeightWatchers™ books and foods via its ecommerce site. All prices include UK postage.

WeightWatchers™ is acknowledged to be the most successful weight loss system with its unique and innovative POINTS ® system, meetings across the UK with backup on-line assistance through a vibrant community of like-minded dieters and those who have successfully reached their desired weight.

iAuctionShop’s service is for those people who can not manage to get to a monthly meeting and so are unable to access either the items for sale at these meetings or via the WeightWatchers™ website, where access codes run out one month after the last meeting is attended. The prices are necessarily higher than at a WeightWatchers™ meeting, but they include 1st class UK postage and packing. Customers interested in multiple items should contact iAuctionShop for a bespoke combined quote. Customers from outside Great Britain should contact iAuctionShop for a quote to include airmail shipping on their desired item(s).

WeightWatchers™ items can be located at:

http://www.rscollect.co.uk/weightwatchers.htm

http://www.iauctionshop.co.uk/catalog.php?exp=214

Other services include tax-free shopping for customers outside the European Union and gift-wrapping options that can be selected at checkout.

iAuctionShop Ltd trades as R & S Collectables listing about 5,000 product lines - mainly in the antiques, collectables and replacement tableware marketplaces, although traditional toys and games, jewellery and home wares feature heavily in their catalogue. iAuctionShop lists across several internet sales venues;

http://www.iauctionshop.co.uk

http://www.rscollect.co.uk

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_dscm/202-0624567-7755039?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=iAuctionShop&Go.x=6&Go.y=12

http://www.specialistauctions.com/shop.php?userid=101862

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/REBECCA-AND-SIMONS-COLLECTABLES

iAuctionShop also markets items on behalf of a large number of clients. Notable sales have been c£6,200 for a Faberge vesta case and c£2,000 for a historically important Nagra IIc tape recorder.

iAuctionShop trading as R & S Collectables offers free UK postage and handling on all items available from www.rscollect.co.uk and www.iauctionshop.co.uk. The offer is available until further notice and applies to the entire catalogue covering, for example:

Antiques – http://www.rscollect.co.uk/antiques.htm

Books – http://www.rscollect.co.uk/books.htm

Collectables - http://www.rscollect.co.uk/collectables.htm

Collector plates - http://www.rscollect.co.uk/collector%20plates.htm

Dolls & teddies - http://www.rscollect.co.uk/dolls%20and%20teddies.htm

Figures - http://www.rscollect.co.uk/figurines.htm

Home & garden - http://www.rscollect.co.uk/home%20%26%20garden.htm

Jewellery - http://www.rscollect.co.uk/jewellery.htm

Pottery - http://www.rscollect.co.uk/pottery.htm

Tableware - http://www.rscollect.co.uk/Tableware.htm

Toby & character jugs - http://www.rscollect.co.uk/toby%20jugs.htm

Toys & games - http://www.rscollect.co.uk/toys.htm

Customers interested in multiple items should contact iAuctionShop for a bespoke combined quote.

Other services include tax free shopping for customers outside the European Union and gift wrapping options that can be selected at checkout.

iAuctionShop Ltd trades as R & S Collectables listing about 5,000 product lines - mainly in the antiques, collectables and replacement tableware marketplaces, listing across several internet sales venues;

http://www.iauctionshop.co.uk

http://www.rscollect.co.uk

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_dscm/202-0624567-7755039?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=iAuctionShop&Go.x=6&Go.y=12

http://www.specialistauctions.com/shop.php?userid=101862

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/REBECCA-AND-SIMONS-COLLECTABLES

iAuctionShop also markets items on behalf of a large number of clients. Notable sales have been c£6,200 for a Faberge vesta case and c£2,000 for a historically important Nagra IIc tape recorder.