We've put up a number of attractive auctions for Playboy, Sports Illustrated and other magazines on eBay this week, with most of them ending on Sunday, February 12 or Tuesday, February 14.
We list under two separate IDs on eBay, but you can find all of the auctions under either idle-assets or magsmedia.
Among the auctions listed is the highly-sought-after May 1974 Playboy issue with centerfold favorite, Marilyn Lange, along with many anniversary issues and an assortment of Newsstand Specials and Special Editions.
There are currently over 200 auctions listed, though due to time restraints, some of the auctions are not ready for sale just yet. Information on these "placeholders" will be added over the next few days, so make sure to check back for items that just might help fill out your collection.
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Will NY AG Eric Schneiderman Fight or Fold?
With 40 states' Attorneys General already signed onto a deal with the nation's largest banks over mortgage and foreclosure fruad, there are still a few holdouts, including the AGs of Delaware, California and New York's eric Schneiderman.
There was speculation that Schneiderman was going to join in the settlement, worth somewhere in the area of $25 billion, but, late Tuesday, moments before the Attorney General's previously-announced 6:00 pm statement was to be made, press agencies were advised that the press conference was "postponed indefinitely."
The sudden cancellation of the highly-anticipated statement leaves the settlement still up in the air, especially for those states which have not signed on.
Schneiderman is in a unique position, having been named lead investigator on the Justice department's national task force to look into banking irregularities surrounding sub-prime mortgages, robo-signing and the financial collapse of 2008.
The AG also recently filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court against Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo, alleging various abuses of the judicial system and fraud in mortgage and foreclosure dealings. Also named as a defendant in the suit was MERS, the Mortgage Electronic Registry System, which was set up by the nation's largest banks designed to circumvent the standard county-by-county recording of deeds, mortgages and assignments.
Filed in Kings County on Friday, February 3rd, the suit seeks civil remedies and damages.
In the aftermath of Schneiderman's scuttled press conference, the burning question is whether the AG will continue in his efforts to bring the major banks which were largely the cause of the nation's financial woes to justice or will he drop the lawsuit and join the fold of his fellow Attorneys General in what many have called a "stealth bailout" for the banks?
Schneiderman is under a great deal of pressure from all sides, including from the President, who announced the task force during his State of the Union message.
Harmed homeowners and many in the legal system hope that the AG sticks to his guns and continues to pursue the banks through the courts. The bankers, meanwhile, are probably using scare tactics along the lines of former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who threatened Senators and members of the House with cries of "martial law" and other inflammatory remarks along the lines of financial armageddon to pass the $700 billion TARP legislation that was passed along to the criminal bankers.
There was speculation that Schneiderman was going to join in the settlement, worth somewhere in the area of $25 billion, but, late Tuesday, moments before the Attorney General's previously-announced 6:00 pm statement was to be made, press agencies were advised that the press conference was "postponed indefinitely."
The sudden cancellation of the highly-anticipated statement leaves the settlement still up in the air, especially for those states which have not signed on.
Schneiderman is in a unique position, having been named lead investigator on the Justice department's national task force to look into banking irregularities surrounding sub-prime mortgages, robo-signing and the financial collapse of 2008.
The AG also recently filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court against Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo, alleging various abuses of the judicial system and fraud in mortgage and foreclosure dealings. Also named as a defendant in the suit was MERS, the Mortgage Electronic Registry System, which was set up by the nation's largest banks designed to circumvent the standard county-by-county recording of deeds, mortgages and assignments.
Filed in Kings County on Friday, February 3rd, the suit seeks civil remedies and damages.
In the aftermath of Schneiderman's scuttled press conference, the burning question is whether the AG will continue in his efforts to bring the major banks which were largely the cause of the nation's financial woes to justice or will he drop the lawsuit and join the fold of his fellow Attorneys General in what many have called a "stealth bailout" for the banks?
Schneiderman is under a great deal of pressure from all sides, including from the President, who announced the task force during his State of the Union message.
Harmed homeowners and many in the legal system hope that the AG sticks to his guns and continues to pursue the banks through the courts. The bankers, meanwhile, are probably using scare tactics along the lines of former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who threatened Senators and members of the House with cries of "martial law" and other inflammatory remarks along the lines of financial armageddon to pass the $700 billion TARP legislation that was passed along to the criminal bankers.
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