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Bidz.com to auction off diamonds from LID bankruptcy auction

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Jennifer Schonberger | May 19, 2008 8:57am EDT | Comment
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Online jewelry auctioneer Bidz.com (Nasdaq:BIDZ) said this morning that it was the winning bidder of a large lot of finished jewelry in the bankruptcy auction of LID Ltd., one of the world’s largest manufacturers of diamond jewelry. Bidz said it paid nearly $24 million for the jewels and said it expects to begin auctioning off its new inventory in early June.

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