Sentence examples for direct auction from inspiring English sources

Buying at a direct auction Start with QXL or rather QXL Direct.

When Google went public in August 2004, many were impressed that the stock opened at a premium to the price paid in what was then (and in some respects still is) the unheard of direct auction IPO.

Unlike the six companies above, however, Zookoda is holding a direct auction outside of ebay so that, in the words of co-founder Nick McNaughton in an IM conversation we had earlier, "we can have some control over our own destiny and make a considered decision on an appropriate partner".

'A lot of them are completely stuffed,' says Inez Rix, the co-director of Direct Auctions, a Marbella company that specialises in distress sales.

Now a lot of them are in trouble and we're getting more distress sales through the door.' His experience is echoed by Inez Rix, owner of Direct Auctions in Marbella.

The first Direct Action auction paid $14 a tonne, but costs increase substantially over time.

The results of the first Direct Action auction, revealed last week, showed emissions reduction contracts worth $660.4m had been awarded to prevent 47m tonnes of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere.

The first Direct Action auction spent $660m to buy 47m tonnes of greenhouse abatement, but was criticised because it mostly funded projects already operating, some of which would have continued without additional government money.

In fact, in Paris last December the foreign minister, Julie Bishop, spoke openly about the "role a carbon market might play [in Australia] after 2020", and Lewis Tyndall, co-founder of GreenCollar – a firm that has been a big winner from Hunt's Direct Action auctions, told an event: "Greg Hunt has described the safeguards mechanism as a baseline and credit system".

Mr. Greene asserted that he then directed the auction house's chief executive, now his main accuser at the trial, Diana D. Brooks, to carry out his orders to fix commission rates with her counterpart at Christie's in a scheme that cost customers millions.

To achieve those goals, it uses a hybrid model that combines direct and auction-based programmatic buying.