If you are rich and impatient, buying through an auction room is the place for you.
Its main service is as an auction room for advertisers, whose bidding determines how prominently their link is displayed.
The mezzanine auction room at Christie's at Rockefeller Center was packed in September with well-dressed Indians ready to spend money.
But only 650 were allowed into Calmels Chambre Cohen's auction room.
In the auction room, where they come out in force, bringing along wives and children who sometimes disrupt proceedings, the Nahmads argue with each other even while they are bidding.
The site now hosts real-time webcasts of live auctions once a week or so, with web bidders represented in the real-world auction room by a Dove employee with a paddle.
The firm is well run only by the low standards of the auction business, and there is room for further efficiency improvements.
Also pleasing is the anecdote of a woman inspecting an auction catalogue in a snootily decorated room, disrupted by a glimpse of city street, sporting fortuitous patches of primary colors, outside the window.
For 10 minutes late Wednesday morning, a jam-packed sale room at Christie's auction house in London was silent.
The psychology of buying at auction still tends to favour the bidder in the room.
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"Because of the room created by unifying categories, the current SEBI auction mechanism allocating debt limits for corporate bonds will be replaced by an "on-tap" system currently in place for infrastructure bonds, " the minister said.
The auction house has seating for about 150 people, and can hold an estimated 500 people for standing-room crowds, he said.
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