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  2. Unusual eBay listings - Wikipedia

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    Bridgeville, California (population 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale three times since. [1] In January 2003, Thatch Cay, the last privately held and undeveloped U.S. Virgin Island, was listed for auction by Idealight International. The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003.

  3. Auction sniping - Wikipedia

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    Auctions. Auction sniping (also called bid sniping) is the practice, in a timed online auction, of placing a bid likely to exceed the current highest bid (which may be hidden) as late as possible—usually seconds before the end of the auction—giving other bidders no time to outbid the sniper. This can be done either manually or by software ...

  4. No-reserve auction - Wikipedia

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    Auctions. A no-reserve auction ( NR ), also known as an absolute auction, is an auction in which the item for sale will be sold regardless of price. [ 1][ 2] From the seller's perspective, advertising an auction as having no reserve price can be desirable (but risky) because it potentially attracts a greater number of bidders due to the ...

  5. Vickrey auction - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A Vickrey auction or sealed-bid second-price auction ( SBSPA) is a type of sealed-bid auction. Bidders submit written bids without knowing the bid of the other people in the auction. The highest bidder wins but the price paid is the second-highest bid. This type of auction is strategically similar to an English auction and gives bidders ...

  6. The Coca-Cola Code: Teen 'Buys' Recipe for $15 Million on eBay

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    Hoping to monetize his find, Kluge put the recipe up for auction online, with a "Buy It Now" price of $15 million. That option was apparently irresistible to some teenage eBay user, who pledged ...

  7. Spectrum auction - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A spectrum auction is a process whereby a government uses an auction system to sell the rights to transmit signals over specific bands of the electromagnetic spectrum and to assign scarce spectrum resources. Depending on the specific auction format used, a spectrum auction can last from a single day to several months from the opening bid ...

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    Windows: Windows 7 and newer. Mac: MacOS X and newer. Note: Ad-Free AOL Mail removes ads while using AOL email; it is not supported on AOL Desktop Gold or the AOL mobile app. Ad-Free AOL Webmail ...

  9. Auction - Wikipedia

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    An American auctioneer using auction chant at a livestock auction, November 2010. An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder. Some exceptions to this definition exist and are described ...