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Re: AucZILLA IX
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Wed, 6 Jan 1999 07:09:39 GMT
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Hi Todd,
A little bit off topic, but is there any progress about my right wings?..:-)
Selçuk
Todd Lehman wrote in message <36927ab0.3139355@lugnet.com>...
> Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> writes:
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> > LINC is being melodramatic. I'm actually quite amenable to splits,
> > because Tood, or his software(1), has a habit of putting sure to be hot
> > pieces into single lots so that bidders go for them instead of several
> > lots so everyone gets some.
>
> That's not what it does -- or, that's not its intent. All it does is look
> for a "happy medium" between lot repetition and lot price. When it chooses
> the lot size, it tries to avoid duplicate-lot cardinalities that are too
> large or too small and to avoid lot opening-bids that are too high or too
> low. Examples of something it would try to avoid, assuming it had to
> consider what to do with 5000 White 1x1 Bricks: (a) 1 lot of 5000 White • 1x1
> bricks for $100.00 each, (b) 1000 lots of 5 White 1x1 Bricks for $.10 each.
> Instead it would probably go with something like (c) 10 lots of 500 White
> 1x1 bricks for $10.00 each. So it analyzes a bunch of possibilities and
> tries to choose the happy medium -- using fuzzy logic and some funky math
> curves. There is an additional tweak that I can make to an element type
> across the board that says it the element prefers generally "small" or
> "medium" or "large" lots or that it always has to be sold individually. • But
> all of this is going the way of the dino someday, because I want people to
> be able to pick their own lot sizes.
>
> Another thing to keep in mind -- the AucZILLA series of auctions was
> designed from its inception to be as much a "bulk" and "large quantities"
> type of thing as possible. So things often tend toward the large. All
> things being equal, I'd rather divvy out 10 of something to one person than
> 2 of something to each of 5 people. It's faster and there's less
> possibility of errors. But I realize that all things are seldom equal. :)
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> --Todd
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> > This drives his profit up a bit... Ok, a
> > lot. :-) [...]
>
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| (...) Not as much as I'd like. :-( I've heard back from Matt so far, who was also missing 4 right wings, but not yet from Bill (he's bcc'd on this message as a hopeful reminder). If Bill doesn't write back through e-mail soon I'll need to contact (...) (28 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) That's not what it does -- or, that's not its intent. All it does is look for a "happy medium" between lot repetition and lot price. When it chooses the lot size, it tries to avoid duplicate-lot cardinalities that are too large or too small (...) (28 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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