Arranging and conducting auctions in the field of precious metals; arranging and conduction of auction sales; auction management services provided to others over an on-line web site accessed through a global computer network; auction services; carrying out auction sales; on-line auction services; on-line auction services featuring gold, silver, platinum, palladium; on-line trading services in which seller posts products to be auctioned and bidding is done via the Internet; providing a web site whereby buyers of goods or services locate and receive quotations from multiple competitive sources and sellers of goods or services identify and bid on multiple new sales opportunities; providing a website featuring an online marketplace for exchanging goods and services with other users