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Re: 8480 Technic Shuttles
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 2 Apr 2000 17:09:18 GMT
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> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > Sealed bid auctions belong in .auction, and OBO sales belong in .b-s-t.
My interpretation of this is:
an OBO sale is similar to a sealed bid auction EXCEPT a minimum price is set
in an OBO sale. The absense of a minimum price makes an OBO sale
automatically an auction. Sound reasonable?
For the record, Lindsay's posting (post #1 in this thread, although not the
start) DID list a minimum asking price.
-Rob.
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Not really. Auctions have a Starting Bid, which can easily be set high enough to be a Minimum Price. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: 8480 Technic Shuttles
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| (...) Hmm. In what way does the presense or absense of a minimum price make a difference? IMHO, only two things can make an OBO sale into an auction: 1. If the seller calls it an "auction" (i.e. "SBA" or "sealed-bid auction") rather than an OBO (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: 8480 Technic Shuttles
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| (...) Let's try again. You say they're mathematically equivalent but sortable by how they're labeled (and treated) into one of the two groups. I say they're mathematically equivalent and therefore all belong in auction, regardless of label. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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