New Egypt Exchange/Reverse Auction

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"A reverse auction is a type of auction in which the roles of buyers and sellers are reversed. In an ordinary auction (also known as a forward auction), buyers compete to obtain a good or service, and the price typically increases over time. In a reverse auction, sellers compete to obtain business, and prices typically decrease over time." [1]

The Exchange will, from time-to-time, conduct Auctions on behalf of Individuals. These will take the form of an Blind Reverse Auction. In essence an reverse auction is when the buyer defines what he/she requires and the sellers then bid how much they are prepared to sell the item for. The buyer will naturally take the offer that is cheapest, so the price will decrease over time. The Auction will also be Blind, meaning the bidders will not know the value of the other bids.

The procedure on the day of the Auction

The Auctioneer will start the auction by announcing it on the various public channels that accept trade related messages. The message will include the lot to be auctioned (commodity x amount) and a time period. All times will be measured in realtime by the Auctioneer's watch.

Bidders must then submit bids directly to the auctioneer (using a chat message). The bid must indicate how much NEX they want for the lot. The bidding will continue until the bidding period had expired. At that time the Auctioneer will announce the winning bid amount.

The auctioneer will then contact the winning bidder directly to arrange delivery. This will either be at a face-to-face meeting, or using the drop-box system at one of our trading houses. The bidder must select the goods he will be trading for from the commodities the Exchange currently have on offer. This is published on the Current Trades page. If the bid amount cannot be matched exactly with the commodities on the Current Trades page, the difference will be settled in favour of the Exchange.

As an example: Assume that the winning bid was closed at 215 NEX. The winning bidder select to take 10 Cuttable Lapis and the rest as Large Topaz. The current price on the Current Trades page for Cuttable Lapis is 20 NEX and for Large Topaz is 7 NEX. The trade will then be settled at 10 Cuttable Lapis and 2 Large Topaz for a total value of 214 NEX. The remaining 1 NEX will be kept by the Exchange.