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Re: Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
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Date: 
Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:59:54 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, lar@voyager.net (Larry Pieniazek) writes:
Todd Lehman wrote:
AucZILLA gives priority to the earlier of two equal bids, regardless of
automatic increments.  It would go to A for 13, not to B for 13.

Good. (note that this is clearer than your first statement "AucZILLA
works the 'correct'<emphasis mine> way" :-) )

No, that was my second statement -- <grin> -- it was posted two minutes
after the first one, quoted above.


I was getting myself into a panic for nothing, I must have been
misreading the results I was examining.

It's especially tricky sometimes to read what's going on when there
are multiple identical copies of lots.


What about Derick's example, scenario 3? Does B get it in the AucZILLA
case?

A keeps it under those circumstances.

--Todd



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  Re: Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
 
(...) SCENARIO 3 Bidder A bids $100, with a proxy max of $150. Bidder B bids $150.01, bid type is irrelevant. Outcome: B is High bidder with $150.01, and increment is ignored. A has no first bid benefit - a trade-off for the benefit in scenarios 1 (...) (26 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)

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  Re: Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
 
(...) Good. (note that this is clearer than your first statement "AucZILLA works the 'correct'<emphasis mine> way" :-) ) I was getting myself into a panic for nothing, I must have been misreading the results I was examining. What about Derick's (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)

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