Sentence examples for bidder called from inspiring English sources

Incidentally, neither Carlos nor Ekatarina managed to win this particular auction; a mystery telephone bidder called in and took home the striped masterpiece.

Several bidders called in from remote locations on cell phones.

The bidding was set to close at 12 30 p.m., but because Egghead rules allow it to continue if competing bids come in within 10 minutes of each other, bidders were pushing the price toward $5,150 when bidding closed at 2 p.m. Had the two bidders called Renaissance Cruise Lines earlier in the day, both could have made the trip, albeit for the slightly higher price of $5,216.

So far, it has allowed sellers in some categories to add "Skype me" buttons that let potential bidders call them using Skype.

Either the auctioneer announces prices in an increasing manner, or bidders call their bids themselves, or bids are submitted online having the current highest bid posted at any time (see tangent).

Phone banks on either side of the podium were loaded with Christies staffers, all dressed in black-tie attire, helping bidders calling from Hong Kong and the Middle East.

Who'llgimmeme 310, brrbrup," Kelly starts in his trademark high-speed bidder call, which sounds like someone's attached electrodes to a woodpecker.

The contract had been held by L-3 Communications, but when General McCaffrey got wind that the Army was considering seeking new bidders, he called his friend James A. Marks, a major general in the Army who was approaching retirement and was versed in the uses of translators, having served as intelligence chief for land forces during the Iraq invasion.

The auction drew only one bidder: a consortium called Aguas del Tunari.

In fact, eBay recently sued a company called Bidder's Edge that has just the kind of Web site it fears.

The report says that the bidder, a consortium called the Aqueduct Entertainment Group, marshaled funds at the behest of the state's Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, casting "a taint on the motives behind the Senate leadership's support of" Aqueduct Entertainment.