| August 17, 2006 JM Wood's 34th Annual Late Summer Auction to Offer Hurricane Ivan and Katrina Disaster Clean-up Equipment and Dump Trucks MONTGOMERY, Ala.--Aug. 17, 2006--Ableauctions.com (AMEX:AAC - News) announced today that it will host JM Wood's 34th Annual Late Summer Auction August 30th to September 1st, 2006 through its subsidiary NAALive.com. The event will offer over 1,500 machines including 50 surplus dump trucks and equipment from one of the largest and most respected disaster contractors after clean-up of damage from hurricanes Ivan and Katrina. Also available will be surplus equipment from 8 major Caterpillar, John Deere, Komatsu and Mack dealers and equipment from 19 Alabama and Mississippi counties. JM Wood Auction is on pace to have its largest year in sales in the companies 34 year history, and has increased sales by over 10% each of the last 7 years. "The auction industry has experienced rapid growth for the last decade," said JM Wood Auction Vice President Bryant Wood. "We feel that our unique blend of technology, old-fashioned values and superior customer service sets us above the rest. Ableauctions and NAALive have played an instrumental role in our continued growth." JM Wood Auction Company Inc. has been in business, specializing in construction, forestry and county surplus auctions, for 34 years and attributes their accomplishments to their advertising and professional staff. Teamed with a staff that holds years of experience, J.M. Wood has built a mailing list of 75,000 national and international prospective buyers and advertises in national publications such as: Rock & Dirt, Rock & Dirt En Espanol, Machinery Trader, Equipment Trader and Contractors Hotline. Through these marketing tools J.M. Wood expects continued success at their two locations in Montgomery, Alabama, and Columbia, South Carolina. For more information on this auction please visit www.naalive.com/catalog.aspx?asid=4701. About NAALive.com NAALive is an Internet-based broadcast service for NAA members who conduct real auctions. Utilizing NAALive's real-time software, auction houses broadcast over the Internet and online bidders participate in live auctions as if they were physically present at the auction. NAALive also enables bidders to review auction catalogs and place absentee bids prior to an event. NAALive is rapidly becoming the standard for live Internet auctions and the premier Web site for consumer access to the auction industry. This means thousands more potential bidders for your auctions. For more information visit www.naalive.com About Ableauctions.com Ableauctions.com Inc. (AMEX:AAC) is a high-tech liquidator and on-line auction facilitator that operates the domains iCollector.com, Naalive.com, Unlimited Closeouts.com and iTrustee.com. As an on-line auction facilitator, the Company, with the experience of over 3,000 auctions, has developed state-of-the-art technology to broadcast auctions over the Internet (www.ableauctions.com/technology) and currently provides the technology and related services to auction houses, enabling them to broadcast auctions over the Internet. The Company broadcasts business and industrial auctions over the Internet for auctioneers and members of the National Auctioneers Association (NAA) and art, antique and collectible auctions for numerous galleries and auction houses around the world through eBay Live Auctions. As a liquidator, the Company, through Unlimited Closeouts and iTrustee, purchases overstocks, order cancellations and discontinued products from major manufacturers and importers, then sells the merchandise to major retail chains, other resellers or the public. For a comprehensive Corporate Update and prior releases, visit www.ableauctions.com. For more information, contact Investor Relations at investorrelations@ableauctions.com This press release contains forward-looking statements, particularly as related to, among other things, the business plans of the Company, statements relating to goals, plans and projections regarding the Company's financial position and the Company's business strategy. The words or phrases "would be," "will allow," "intends to," "may result," "are expected to," "will continue," "anticipates," "expects," "estimate," "project," "indicate," "could," "potentially," "should," "believe," "considers" or similar expressions are intended to identify "forward-looking statements." These forward-looking statements fall within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934 and are subject to the safe harbor created by these sections. 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Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from anticipated results include risks and uncertainties related to the performance of our staff, management, financing, competition, on-line auction business, our ability to implement or manage our expansion strategy, general economic conditions, our ability to license our software to other auction houses, our ability to acquire profitable companies and integrate them into our business successfully and other factors that are detailed in our Annual Report on Form 10-KSB and on documents we file from time-to-time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements made herein are as of the date of this press release and should not be relied upon as of any subsequent date. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance on such statements. The Company does not undertake, and the Company specifically disclaims any obligation, to update any forward-looking statements to reflect occurrences, developments, unanticipated events or circumstances after the date of such statement. Actual results may differ materially from the Company's expectations and estimates. The Company does not realize nor book the full revenue of auctions that it facilitates in its financials, only the net auction fees, that can vary from time-to-time, that it realizes. |