Now they are looking at an invitation to the Gator Bowl, which has a payout of $1.4 million, a significant markdown from appearing in a $12 million Bowl Championship Series game.
From what we've heard, MySpace is going to sell Photobucket to Ontela for a deal valued at $60 million, which is a huge markdown from the $250 million (plus a $50 million earn-out) that MySpace paid for the company in 2007.
And maybe investors in Merrill Lynch would not have had to settle for a $29/share buyout from Bank of America, a 60% markdown from the share price less than a year ago.
For $875,000 (a $20,000 markdown from its original listing price) you can buy the house, 4.7 acres and all the wainscoting and windows you care to refurbish.
In America, Medicare and Medicaid negotiate prices on behalf of their tens of millions of members and, not coincidentally, purchase care at a substantial markdown from the commercial average.
In February, The Hartford Financial Services Group, a mutual fund and an investor in Pinterest, valued the company at $32.31 per share, a 10% markdown from the Series G investment, according to Pitchbook.
But the service's rock-bottom prices might motivate them to try it out: At one of the Big Apple locations, BuffetGo offers a price markdown from $20 to $3 for one of the restaurant's meals.
Extell Development Company, which is still selling units at One57 four years after beginning sales, reduced the projected sellout value of the tower to $2.56 billion in March, a markdown of $162 million from its 2013 projections.
What he wants, the analysts said, is a comprehensive solution that protects the central bank's balance sheet from a markdown in Greek debt and recapitalizes commercial banks exposed to Greece — inevitably with more taxpayer money.
