He had won the name and costume from an Internet auction.

Cost: at least $50,000, the minimum bid in an Internet auction now under way.

It is frequently seen on want lists and internet auctions.

Businesses, too, are starting to use Internet auctions to buy everything from office equipment to electric power.

Internet auctions have suddenly become a really easy way to fence stuff.

In the Internet auction, the competing suppliers see one another's bids.

Buy something in an Internet auction and you can be sure you are paying the highest possible price.

However, a complete nitrate copy of the film surfaced on an Internet auction in 2005.

Competitive Internet auctions are forcing suppliers, here and abroad, to cut prices more than in the past.

What is less talked about are two changes in American business practices that the Internet auctions encourage.