Article: Online auctions turn crash into cash

Online auctions turn crash into cash

Internet site benefits from defunct companies

By STACEY HIRSH Baltimore Sun

Monday, June 3, 2002

Call it the Sotheby's of the "New Economy."

Bid4Assets Inc. of Silver Spring, Md., takes the assets of defunct companies and auctions them off from its Web site. It is the kind of business that surges when the economy deflates and has benefited from the burst of the dot-com bubble.

"The asset sales business is a good business in good times and a great business in not-so-good times," said Rick Zitelman, the company's president and chief executive.

Tim Miller, president of Webmergers.com, a San Francisco-based company that researches Internet businesses, said: ...

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