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Bridgeville, California (population 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale three times since. [1] In January 2003, Thatch Cay, the last privately held and undeveloped U.S. Virgin Island, was listed for auction by Idealight International. The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003.
The first coins of the New Zealand dollar were 1c, 2c, 5c, 10c, 20c, and 50c. The 1c, 2c, and 50c coins were new sizes, with the 1c and 2c minted in bronze, and 50c in cupronickel. The new 5c, 10c, and 20c were the same size, weight, and value as the former sixpence, shilling, and florin coins. Indeed, until 1970, the 10 cents coin bore the ...
Current status. Active. Trade Me is New Zealand's largest online auction and classifieds website. Managed by Trade Me Ltd., the site was founded in 1999 by New Zealand entrepreneur Sam Morgan, who sold it to Fairfax in 2006 for NZ$700 million. [ 1] Trade Me was publicly listed as a separate entity on 13 December 2011 under the ticker "TME".
These four together produce about 90% of New Zealand's electricity. Meridian Energy, Genesis Energy and Mercury Energy are 51% majority owned by the New Zealand government, while Contact is a 100% publicly traded company. An important feature of the New Zealand market is that all the major generators also own retailing arms.
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Initially, spectrum licenses were sold using a tender system, but the first New Zealand spectrum auction was held in 1996, "making New Zealand the first country to sell rights to use spectrum in this way." [23] An internet-based computer system was developed for the second auction, held in 1998. [24]
A feather from a long-extinct New Zealand bird has set a record after selling for $46,521 NZD (about $28,400 USD), the auction house handling the sale has said.
The economy of New Zealand is a highly developed free-market economy. [ 23] It is the 52nd -largest national economy in the world when measured by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and the 63rd -largest in the world when measured by purchasing power parity (PPP).