Ableauctions - 4 Day Heavy Machine Auction Sets Record for JM Wood Auction House - Internet Sales of Over $4.5 Million and Number of Registered Bidders Exceeding 2200.MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Ableauctions.com (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) An audio compression technology that is part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards. AAC, especially MPEG-4 AAC, provides greater compression and better sound quality than MP3, which also came out of the MPEG standard. ) announced today that JM Wood's March 7 to March 10, 2007 four day sale, two of which were broadcast through NAALive.com, realized their highest Internet sales to date for JM Wood. Internet sales totaled over $4.5 million and over 2200 users registered from around the world to bid on the 2000 machines that were on the auction block. This auction was the largest event held by both JM Wood and NAALive, proving their partnership to be a great success. Highlights of the auction included the following Internet sales: Cat D6R XL Crawler Also known as a "Web crawler," "spider," "ant," "robot" (bot) and "intelligent agent," a crawler is a program that searches for information on the Web. Crawlers are widely used by Web search engines to index all the pages on a site by following the links from page to page. Tractor - $130,000.00 Cat D6R XW Crawler Tractor - $127,500.00 Cat 330CL Hydraulic Excavator ex·ca·va·tor n. An instrument, such as a sharp spoon or curette, used in scraping out pathological tissue. excavator (eks´k - $120,000.00 Cat IT38G Integrated Tool Carrier Quick Couplar - $117,500.00 "The Internet sales were up nearly 50% from last year," said Russ Wood. "We sold nearly 5 million dollars over the Internet in the first 2 days of the 4 day auction, and the internet buyers came in second countless times. J.M. Wood's live Internet service is a valuable tool for the contractor who just can't make it to the auction in person. Most of our Internet buyers like the idea that all of the equipment is in one location and we can give them inspections and arrange transportation from the auction yard." JM Wood Auction Company Inc. has been in business, specializing in construction, forestry and county surplus auctions, for 34 years and attributes their accomplishments to their advertising and professional staff. Teamed with a staff that holds years of experience, J.M. Wood has built a mailing list An automated e-mail system on the Internet, which is maintained by subject matter. There are thousands of such lists that reach millions of individuals and businesses. New users generally subscribe by sending an e-mail with the word "subscribe" in it and subsequently receive all new of 75,000 national and international prospective buyers and advertises in national publications such as: Rock & Dirt, Rock & Dirt En Espanol, Machinery Trader, Equipment Trader and Contractors Hotline. Through these marketing tools J.M. Wood expects continued success at their two locations in Montgomery, Alabama Montgomery is the capital and second most populous city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. Montgomery is notable for its historic involvement during the Civil War, for being the first capital of the Confederacy, and for being a primary site in , and Columbia, South Carolina Columbia is the state capital and largest city of South Carolina. As of 2006, estimates for the population of the city proper is 122,819[1]. Columbia is the county seat of Richland County, but a small portion of the city extends into Lexington County. . About NAALive NAALive is an Internet-based broadcast service for NAA NAA Nomina Anatomica Avium. members who conduct real auctions. Utilizing NAALive's real-time software, auction houses broadcast over the Internet and online bidders participate in live auctions as if they were physically present at the auction. NAALive also enables bidders to review auction catalogs An auction catalog is a catalog that lists items to be sold at an auction. Auction catalogs for rare and expensive items, such as art, jewelry, postage stamps, and antique furniture, are of interest in and of themselves, for they will frequently include detailed descriptions of the and place absentee One who has left, either temporarily or permanently, his or her domicile or usual place of residence or business. A person beyond the geographical borders of a state who has not authorized an agent to represent him or her in legal proceedings that may be commenced against him or her bids prior to an event. NAALive is rapidly becoming the standard for live Internet auctions and the premiere Web site for consumer access to the auction industry. This means thousands more potential bidders for your auctions. About Ableauctions.com Ableauctions.com Inc. (AMEX "aac") is a high-tech liquidator Liquidator Person appointed by an unsecured creditor in the United Kingdom to oversee the sale of an insolvent firm's assets and the repayment of its debts. and on-line auction facilitator that operates the domains iCollector.com, Naalive.com and Unlimited Closeouts.com. As an on-line auction facilitator, the Company, with the experience of over 3,000 auctions, has developed state-of-the-art technology to broadcast auctions over the Internet (www.ableauctions.com/technology) and currently provides the technology and related services to auction houses, enabling them to broadcast auctions over the Internet. The Company broadcasts business and industrial auctions over the Internet for auctioneers and members of the National Auctioneers Association The National Auctioneers Association (NAA) is a group of auctioneers, auction businesses and related companies that seeks to promote the auction method of marketing and the practice of auctioneering in the United States The NAA is an interest group.. (NAA) and art, antique and collectible auctions for numerous galleries and auction houses around the world through eBay Live Auctions. As a liquidator, the Company, through Unlimited Closeouts, purchases overstocks, order cancellations and discontinued products from major manufacturers and importers, then sells the merchandise to major retail chains, other resellers or the public. For a comprehensive Corporate Update and prior releases, visit www.ableauctions.com. For more information, contact Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. at investorrelations@ableauctions.com. This press release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. , particularly as related to, among other things, the business plans of the Company, statements relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc goals, plans and projections regarding the Company's financial position and the Company's business strategy. 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Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from anticipated results include risks and uncertainties related to the performance of our staff, loss of management personnel, an inability to obtain financing as and when we need it, competition from other on-line auction businesses, our ability to implement or manage our expansion strategy, general economic conditions, our ability to license our software to other auction houses, our ability to acquire profitable companies and integrate them into our business successfully and other factors that are detailed in our Annual Report on Form 10-KSB and on documents we file from time-to-time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements made herein are as of the date of this press release and should not be relied upon as of any subsequent date. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance on such statements. The Company does not undertake, and the Company specifically disclaims any obligation, to update any forward-looking statements to reflect occurrences, developments, unanticipated events or circumstances after the date of such statement. E.&O.E. |
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