Sentence examples for users bidding from inspiring English sources

Very cold weather recently -- and the prospect of another winter storm -- has prompted a rush to buy heating oil by these natural gas users, bidding up prices.

Under the Kelly mechanism, users bid and proportionally share resources.

Users bid for tickets, and are told whether the bid was accepted.

Priceline.com Inc., which lets customers bid on line for airplane tickets, hotel rooms and goods like food and gas, will form a joint venture in Japan with Softbank, Japan's largest Internet backer, to let users bid for airplane tickets and hotel rooms on the Internet.

Typically a children's charity wanting to deliver services might calculate the cost of providing that service to the expected number of users, bid for a contract on that basis, and then use the contract fee to deliver what they promised.

When interested users bid in that auction, the seller gets a nifty notification.

Paddle8 follows the auction model, where users bid online for pieces that have been curated by the site.

He finally landed a $15,000 loan at a 13.5% rate from Prosper.com, an online service that lets users bid for the privilege of lending money.

Dropit is an interactive app that hosts live 60-second auctions on a stadium's scoreboard, that users bid on from their mobile device.

Sweemo bills itself as a "experience sharing community website" where users bid auction style for "a unique range of user generated life experiences" like skydiving, cooking lessons from a Michelin starred chef or backstage passes at Paris fashion week.

Also new in 2.0: Fabulis Auctions, which lets users bid on brand-name designer fashions and other stuff using the site's very own virtual currency (Fabulis Bits) and Fabulis Exclusives, which are basically exclusive promotions and experiences available only to Fabulis members (hence the Groupon comparison).