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With a much larger number of potential bidders, PropertyRoom.com auctions typically have a winning bid price higher than live traditional offline police auctions. [6] This service also allows police and municipal clients to eliminate overhead and overtime to off-duty employees organizing an auction, allowing them to concentrate on their core ...
Police auctions [6] of unclaimed and lost property are held publicly across the country. Auctions will be organised locally were the item was located or surrendered. Police auctions are generally advertised in local papers or bidders can call the local police station to find out when one will take place. [7]
Proxy bidding is an implementation of an English second-price auction used on eBay, in which the winning bidder pays the price of the second-highest bid plus a defined increment. It differs from a Vickrey auction in that bids are not sealed; the "current highest bid" (defined as second-highest bid plus bid increment) is always displayed.
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Police auction: proceeds of crime; Post office, transport: lost property; Warrant sale: assets of debtors; Tax sale: seized assets; Court auction: items sold to satisfy a court judgment, like storage contents of not-paying tenants; Insolvent companies where the government is the liquidator (e.g. official receiver) Unowned property
This holds only when the agents' valuations are statistically independent; when the valuations are dependent, we have a common value auction, and in this case, the revenue in a second-price auction is usually higher than in a first-price auction. The item for sale may not be sold if the final bid is not high enough to satisfy the seller, that ...
An English auction is an open-outcry ascending dynamic auction. It proceeds as follows. The auctioneer opens the auction by announcing a suggested opening bid, a starting price, or a reserve for the item on sale. Then the auctioneer accepts increasingly higher bids from the floor and sometimes from other sources, for example online or telephone ...
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