Critics have asked why Locog did not first collect the tickets for resale and put them all on sale at once.
According to a few eBay users, including David J. Carlson, a Carmel, Calif., art dealer who employs three "e-pickers" to search for authentic paintings on eBay that he might buy for resale, "pogdog" put up for sale an abstract painting that also resembled a Diebenkorn.
And it's probably not a wise resale strategy to put an expensive luxury-line tile or slate roof on a moderate-value home in a moderate-priced neighborhood.
(The co-branding idea was an effort to stymie resales). That policy put the company in the position of having its name paired with firms with different philosophical approaches to business, which in turn opened Patagonia to charges of hypocrisy.
And a trust achieves permanent affordability by separating the land from the house built on it: the trust retains ownership of the land, while the buyer purchases only the house at a lower price, and agrees to a resale price that puts a cap on the profit that the buyer can make.
An example of such price-fixing might be a resale price maintenance program, put in place by the manufacturer of a certain brand-name appliance, that guarantees adequate profit margins for the brand's retailers and lets them attempt to capture market share from one another via nonprice competition.
While debate remains open on exactly how much they are worth and I've heard many different estimates from experts I trust, public estimates have put the resale value of a medical record up to $100 each, depending on how comprehensive it is and what type of patient it belongs to.
The two factors are basically putting the resale market pricing chart in fast forward.
Also unclear is how many of those were immediately put up on resale sites.
Two years ago, at the new auction held by the F.C.C. after the cancellation, Verizon Wireless and other big companies agreed to pay a total of $16 billion for the licenses that the government confiscated from NextWave and put out for resale.
