New York Times
PRACTICAL TRAVELER; Online Auctions: Reducing Risks By BOB TEDESCHI - January 4, 2004
LAST year when Paige Pierson lost her job in the San Francisco Bay Area's dot-com contraction, she resolved not to abandon her travel passions.
The auctions on eBay had been a constant source of entertainment and the occasional bargain in recent years, and being a dot-commer, Ms. Pierson knew of other Web sites that sold travel through auctions. So in February, while musing about how to introduce her newborn son, Logan, to her extended family in Munich, she ventured online, looking to match the click of her mouse with the clack of a virtual auctioneer's gavel.
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SkyAuction.com named to the Rising Star list of the 2003 Deloitte & Touche New York Technology Fast 50 program
September 26, 2003
Deloitte announced the rankings for the 2003 New York Technology Fast 50, the firm's annual ranking of the 50 fastest-growing companies in New York City area.
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SkyAuction.com closes Series C round of $4.0 million
NEW YORK, NY - January 12, 2002
SkyAuction.com, the leading travel auction marketplace on the Internet, announces a series C financing of $4.0 million with existing investors, led by Baring Private Equity Partners, the private equity arm of ING Group.
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Wall Street Journal
Article written by Karen Jacobs - 4.16.2000
For many start-ups, directors offer desperately needed management skills.
The problem is finding qualified candidates. If you think a cash-conserving dot-com has to settle
for less when looking
for directors, consider Skyauction.com.
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.com with Mark Hamill on TV Interactive
Bidding For Travel
It's a little known fact, airlines fly with over half a million unsold
seats every day of the week, and thousands of hotel rooms are vacant each night around the globe.
Now there's a destination where Web surfers can bid for such travel commodities, SkyAuction.com.
This travel auction site allows customers to bid on airline tickets and hotel rooms even while
they're away from their computers. Pack your bags and join us for the latest road to travel savings.
ZDTV
Name Your Price at Online Travel Auctions - 9.24.1999
These days, when you want to travel, chances are you log on to your PC
before you pick up the phone. You're no longer
limited to the e-commerce travel sites where consumers routinely buy plane tickets at fixed
prices. Now, travel auction sites allow you to name your price.
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New York Times
Cheap Air Fares: Bidding on the Web - 3.14.1999
New York tour operator and airline-ticket consolidator has opened a
Web site to accept bids on domestic and overseas tickets, and the owner says that no
bid -- not even $1 -- is too small to start. Many of the fares have limited windows of
availability; others, particularly for students, offer a round trip to anywhere in the
United States to be used in a wide period of time.
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USA Today - By Laura Bly
Are Internet travel auctions a route to bargains? - 3.12.1999
I thought I'd mastered the art of the deal.Winner of an Internet auction
for a week's cruise through the southern Caribbean, I'd clicked my way to an outside cabin on
Carnival's Inspiration for only $974 per couple, including port charges.
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Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel
2.21.1999
"I don't usually talk about travel programs on the internet,
because the subject is endless and also uninteresting to people who don't use computers.
But a new web site called SkyAuction.com is too intriguing to be ignored. It's lists of
dozens of travel products--Airfares, Hotels, Air-and-Land Packages, Cruises--And then lets
you bid to buy them, with the opening bid fixed at exactly $1.00. If no one else wants the
product, You buy it for $1.00. I think you'll get a kick--and maybe a low-priced vacation from
SkyAuction.com"
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About.com
New Kid on the "Auction Block" - SkyAuction.com - 2.17.1999
Today a new site launches that is sure to change the way you plan your vacation and buy airline tickets. SkyAuction.com
looks like a true winner.
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