In his 2010 lawsuit against the auction house under RICO, Koch argued that in the course of auctioning a number of bottles of Thomas Jefferson wine in the mid-1980s, Christie's had advertised in its catalogs that the wine was authentic.
Blink! – An addictive twist on Dutch-style aucthiss, tool tool asks users, "How long can you hold out?" Items are presented for sale at a starting price that drops throughout the course of the auction, the more auction participants the faster the price falls.
Two major concerns in combinatorial auction design are the revelation or discovery of market price information over the course of the auction, and the inherent computational difficulty (NP-hardness) of the underlying "winner-determination" problem.
I cannot remember another time when such a dramatic statement was made in the course of an auction.
"We're not going to slip into foreclosure during the course of the auction," he said, "but that's certainly a possibility in the long term".
Based on how things are going after the first dozen condos are sold, said the Beacon developer, George Filopoulos of Metrovest Equities, he will decide what to do next: sell some or all of the 13 remaining units at whatever "absolute" price they attain during the course of the auction, or set a minimum acceptable price.
Who would think that the shredder would create such a great piece of performance art, so much so it became instant art world history, as the first time a new work had been created in the course of an auction.
We were also prepared to gain the nationwide C Block licenses at a price somewhat higher than the reserve price; in fact, for many days during the early course of the auction, we were the high bidder.
The FCC's plan favors the first approach -- auctioning the spectrum, which is clearly the better course of action.
Over the course of six auctions in 12 years, Pettavino has raised more than €25 million toward the charitable cause.
By 1993, the Kuntz brothers had a herd of 150 horses, including those purchased from the park over the course of several auctions and their descendants.
