Online auction site Bidville sent an email to users this week informing them that its new owner, uBid Holdings, has built a new management team to run the Bidville.com site. In the email, Bidville also said it had added new security methods in order to combat fraud.

Bidville will authenticate sellers using their credit-card account and will not allow new international users to sell on the site. Current international sellers' accounts will stay active, and international buyers will continue to be able to register and bid on the site.

According to the announcement, the new Bidville team has big plans for the site. "We are very excited as we continue to grow the community by increasing the number of buyers, individual sellers and storefronts!"

Bidville was founded in 1999, and uBid acquired the company in July (http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m07/i27/s00). The Bidville logo now includes the tagline, "A uBid Company."

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