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There's no minimum opening bid for Jordan's 56,000-square-foot compound in Highland Park, Ill., but potential buyers of the former NBA superstar's estate, which is being sold furnished, do have to ...
Bidders submit written bids without knowing the bid of the other people in the auction. The highest bidder wins but the price paid is the second-highest bid. This type of auction is strategically similar to an English auction and gives bidders an incentive to bid their true value.
No reserve auction (a/k/a "absolute auction") – an auction in which there is no minimum acceptable price; so long as the winning bid is at least the minimum bid, the seller must honor the sale. Outbid – to bid higher than another bidder. Opening bid – the first bid placed on a particular lot. The opening bid must be at least the minimum ...
The item for sale may not be sold if the final bid is not high enough to satisfy the seller, that is, the seller reserves the right to accept or reject the highest bid. If the seller announces to the bidders the reserve price, it is a public reserve price auction. [ 8 ]
A stalking horse offer, agreement, or bid is a bid for a bankrupt firm or its assets that is arranged in advance of an auction to act, in effect, as a reserve bid. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The intent is to maximize the value of its assets or avoid low bids, as part of (or before) a court auction .
In corporate finance, a tender offer is a type of public takeover bid. The tender offer is a public, open offer or invitation (usually announced in a newspaper advertisement) by a prospective acquirer to all stockholders of a publicly traded corporation (the target corporation) to tender their stock for sale at a specified price during a specified time, subject to the tendering of a minimum ...
Yahoo! Auctions is a service set up by the online search giant Yahoo! in 1998 to compete against eBay. [2]There are currently only two localizations of the service active in Taiwan and Japan; Yahoo! has discontinued the service in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Ireland.
A no-reserve auction (NR), also known as an absolute auction, is an auction in which the item for sale will be sold regardless of price. [1] [2]From the seller's perspective, advertising an auction as having no reserve price can be desirable (but risky) because it potentially attracts a greater number of bidders due to the possibility of a bargain. [1]