Auctions driving b-to-b exchanges; Buyers, sellers benefiting from the efficiencies.(business-to-business)(Brief Article)
Auctions have been a key procurement method since farmers in dusty village squares bid up the price of goats long ago. Naturally, auctions are part of the e-business landscape, too. In fact, they are at the heart of most business-to-business exchanges. Take Aerospan.com Inc., a Wood Dale-based

Publication: Crain's Chicago Business

Auctions 'worst way to sell'
Auctions are the worst method of selling your house, says a new book on the real estate industry by former Australian agent Neil Jenman. In his newly released book, Real Estate Mistakes, Mr Jenman, who is promoting a system of ethical standards in selling real estate, savages auctions as being good

Publication: The Press

Behind the bidding: yay or nay? With e-auctions well-established in the private label industry, participants in the process speak out on the pros and cons of online bidding.(Online Auctions)(Cover Story)
Online auctions. E-auctions. Online bids. Reverse auctions. The process of bagging business via the Internet has been called many names since its rising star began its ascent only a few years back, and depending on what side of the fence you're on, some of those names aren't fit to print. One

Publication: Private Label Buyer

THE NON-EXISTENCE OF EQUILIBRIUM IN SEQUENTIAL AUCTIONS WHEN BIDS ARE REVEALED
ABSTRACT Sequential auctions of homogeneous objects are common in public and private marketplaces. Weber derived equilibrium results for what is now a classic model of sequential auctions. However, Weber's results are derived in the context of two particular price quote assumptions. In this paper,

Publication: Journal of Electronic Commerce Research

Bid.Com Begins Regularly Scheduled Live STREAMING Video AuctionS On The Internet.
Auctions to Utilize Bid.Com's Patented Declining-Price (Dutch) Auction Format TORONTO, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Bid.Com International Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDS; Toronto: BII) one of North America's leading online auction companies, announced that tonight and this Friday night at 10:00 p.m. EST it will begin

Publication: PR Newswire

Action at auctions; needs special words
Auctions have their own lingo: Absentee bid: This is a way to bid even if you cannot attend the auction in person. Check with auction officials to see if this is available and how they make the bids for you. Many places allow written absentee bids, phone-in bids, and online bidding. With written

Publication: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel