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Re: 8480 Technic Shuttles
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 2 Apr 2000 21:42:56 GMT
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Rob Doucette wrote:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > > Sealed bid auctions belong in .auction, and OBO sales belong in .b-s-t.
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> My interpretation of this is:
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> 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?
Not really. Auctions have a Starting Bid, which can easily be set high enough
to be a Minimum Price.
> For the record, Lindsay's posting (post #1 in this thread, although not the
> start) DID list a minimum asking price.
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> -Rob.
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| Assembled Multitude: (...) I agree with Tom that OBO without a minimum and OBO with a minimum aren't different; however, I still think they're both fundamentally different from auctions in the eBay-esque sense. But they're also fundamentally (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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