Express had instant inventory by drawing items already selling on Ebay sites at fixed prices.
Moreover, some 30% of its sales are now at fixed prices, rather than from auctions.
JT's corporate affairs director, Daragh McDermott, said the company reluctantly accepted the fixed prices.
In closing, prosecutors and defense jousted over who fixed prices at the great auction house.
Goods sold at fixed prices have come to account for 30% of the value of all goods sold.
So consumers who value fixed prices usually have to accept that firms may ration access to the good.
They also introduced innovations like fixed prices, which stressed transparency over sharp dealing.
Fixed prices for capacity and energy for each new three-year tranche are negotiated.
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For quality carpets without the haggling, head for the fixed prices and easygoing attitude of Ben Rahal Carpets in Nouvelle Ville.
Penney and IBM, are also starting to sell some of their discounted items through eBay auctions, albeit sometimes in disguise and sometimes for fixed prices.
It provides funds for capital expenditure upfront when a project is being developed and obtains the right to buy precious metals produced at low, fixed prices.
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It's precisely this threat of forcing companies that have made big investments in broadband to hand over that capacity to rivals or users at government-fixed prices that is preventing progress.
An explosion at a BP oil refinery in Texas in 2005 that killed 15 workers, a series of other safety concerns and allegations that the company fixed propane prices have battered its reputation in America.
They answered to a Rail Regulator and his staff, who fixed internal contracts and prices, a Franchise Director and his staff who fixed fares and subsidies and a minister and his officials who tried to fix everything.
But many other countries kept prices fixed and increased the size of their subsidies.
To scrub every last whiff of sleaze from the used-car business, CarMax makes its sticker prices fixed.
Evidently the crew in Redmond doesn't see piracy as a problem to be fixed by lowering prices.
Until last year, South Korea's 31 stockbrokers ran a well-organised cartel, with prices fixed at a fat 0.5% per trade.
Shops were ordered to sell such goods at fixed, low prices.
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Because of this, equity and fixed-income prices are more likely to swing quickly in response to Washington next year than at any other time over the past decade.
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Lower interest rates mean higher prices for fixed income securities and gold, a proxy today for deflation.
The paper added that the discussions include looking at the different aspects how of prices are fixed and whether these are transparent.
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However, in many places, retail prices remain fixed by government fiat.
In the short term, the supply of housing is more or less fixed, so house prices are mainly driven by demand factors: namely, personal disposable income, real interest rates and the return offered by alternative investments such as equities.
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Alt indicators at current prices, including changes in inventories and consumption of fixed capital, are valued at average prices of the accounting period.
As for Swapnote, it is a cash-settled bet on swap prices that are fixed daily by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.
Unlike other market data vendors in the fixed income market who aggregate prices supplied by large dealers, Benchmark Solution uses proprietary technology to analyze millions of market inputs and generate prices which are updated every 10 seconds to provide pre-trade pricing intelligence.
And while that may sound good for bargain hunters, and perhaps even more importantly for Japan's ageing households receiving fixed pension incomes, if prices continue to fall for a prolonged period, it actually has a negative psychological and business effect, some economists argue.
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