mock auction informal
sham auction informal

Mock auctions still appear in halls, community centres and the like.

These mail-outs will be sent five to seven weeks prior to the start of the mock auction.

The site also holds a mock auction so first-time users can practice bidding.

Hold a mock auction, selling the products to the highest bidder until all are sold.

To promote the second full length the band held a mock auction for their tour van, Tim.

Several dozen protesters are staging a mock auction beside the entrance.

The idea of a mock auction was rejected.

But did their chat become a mock auction?

Therefore, bidders must be fully registered to participate in the mock auction.

The Department encourages all designated bidders to participate in the mock auction.

To make sure that the bidders were in fact ready to go, the auctioneers held a mock auction before the real bidding began.

To avoid interfering with genuine auctions, the Act includes a complex and detailed definition of a mock auction.

Mr. Woolley conducts mock auctions, too, using catalogues from past sales.

By conducting mock auctions, potential auctioneers realize how easy it is to be thrown by problems.

Mock auction catalogs are regularly presented to prospective sellers by both houses to try to win a consignment.

The mock auction will simulate most of the characteristics of the actual auction.

Please ensure that you are able to place a practice bid successfully once during this period and once during the mock auction.

In a bit of street theater, protesters held a mock auction of a tent from the dismantled occupy encampment.

After you receive a logon id and password, please go to http://stage.ercot.com/tcr to participate in the mock auction.

We look forward to your participation in the TCR Mock Auction.

Designated bidders are strongly encouraged to participate in the mock auction, to become familiar with the software used to place bids securely.

It makes it an offence to promote or conduct or assist in the conduct of a mock auction.

In 19th Century New York, mock auctions revolved around the sale of cigars, horses and high quality furniture.

For example, performance artists held a mock auction yesterday afternoon outside Sotheby's, the auction house on York Avenue.

Mock auctions will be run exclusively for qualified bidders to allow bidders to better familiarize themselves with the auction system.

There were sham auctions on E-bay and Yahoo!

David Rubin, 50, and his company, CDR Financial Products Inc., were accused of running sham auctions for government agencies looking to invest money raised through municipal bond offerings.

NEW YORK (AP) - The estate of a department store heir says in a lawsuit that Jay Leno was illegally sold a valuable automobile at a sham auction.

Act I A young couple, Julia Chaldicott and Raymond Mount-Highgate, fall madly in love during a sham auction taking place at a bazaar held in a London private park.