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Re: Methodology: Reserve, Controlled Reserve, or No Reserve?
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lugnet.market.auction
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Sat, 24 Apr 1999 13:25:15 GMT
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On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 01:35:19 GMT, "Derick Bulkley"
<dbulkley@SeriousCollector.com> wrote:
> Question to all armchair economists/sociologists/game-theorists:
> (especially you, Todd ;-)
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> From both the stand point of the buyer, and then the seller, what are your
> opinions of the following policies regarding secret reserve prices in auctions:
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> 1) Reserve ok, whatever the seller chooses, goes.
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> 2) Controlled reserve - the reserve price cannot exceed the opening bid by
> either $50 or 50%, whichever is greater.
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> 3) Controlled Reserve: reserves are ok, but seller must state a "Value Range"
> that brackets the reserve. Sellers that state absurdly wide ranges would be
> advised to do otherwise.
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> 4) No reserves whatsoever. If you insist on getting at least price X, then
> they must choose X as the minimum opening bid.
Definitely 4.
2 and 3 make no sense whatsoever -- reserves don't work unless they are
secret.
1 just sucks, as has been described in this thread already.
Steve
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