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Mecum Auctions, Inc. is an American auction company specializing in collector cars and motorcycles. It was founded by Dana Mecum in 1988, and was originally based in Marengo, Illinois. Since 2011, it has been headquartered in Walworth, Wisconsin. The company hosts various auction events across the United States.
The uniform-price auction does not, however, result in bidders bidding their true valuations as they do in a second-price auction unless each bidder has demand for only a single unit. A generalization of the Vickrey auction that maintains the incentive to bid truthfully is known as the Vickrey–Clarke–Groves (VCG) mechanism. The idea in VCG ...
During World War II many private fishing and United States Fish & Wildlife Service (US FWS) vessels were pressed into naval service as patrol craft. A small number would be modified for delivering refrigerated food to small isolated island bases, most without any reclassification.
The actual physical auction catalog is limited to print runs which started in 2005 when the major auction houses created their own app. Since 2020, it is rare that you can purchase the physical auction catalog. The auction is completely cataloged online. [3]: 4 Bidding is done online and the auction results can only be printed online. The ...
YLC may refer to: The Young Life Capernaum, a non-profit organization catering to people with special needs; The Young Liberals of Canada, the national youth wing of the Liberal Party of Canada; The Youth Leadership Camp, an annual four-week leadership program for deaf high school students in the United States
Another special case of a combinatorial auction is the combinatorial clock auction (CCA), which combines a clock auction, during which bidders may provide their confirmations in response to the rising prices, with a subsequantial sealed bid auction, in which bidders submit sealed package bids. The auctioneer uses the final bids to compute the ...
A 2010 TechCrunch article about penny auction site MadBid called this business model "a license to print money." [3] Eighteen months later, a reporter for The Guardian wrote, "legions of penny auction sites have folded, including Swoopo, Rapid Bargain and Bid Boogie." The reporter spoke with a representative for MadBid, who denied that the ...
A first-price sealed-bid auction (FPSBA) is a common type of auction. It is also known as blind auction. [1] In this type of auction, all bidders simultaneously submit sealed bids so that no bidder knows the bid of any other participant. The highest bidder pays the price that was submitted. [2]: p2 [3]