After battling Quidsi on diaper pricing, Amazon offered to buy it.
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Several weeks ago it offered to buy Kumho Asiana's holding at a 30% premium to the market price.
If, on the other hand, you were in the market to buy something, Ebay offered the best chance of finding it at all and of being able to find another one were you to be outbid.
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Instead, this is how it works for them: A fourteenth Buffalo dealer was put up for sale earlier this year, and GM offered each of the other dealers the chance to buy it or help pay to shut it down.
In 2003, Link Holdings, Theory's Japanese licensee (owned partially by Fast Retailing, which today owns it in full), offered to buy Rosen and Tahari out.
Late last year the big onliner offered to buy a major interest in Net2Phone, but Jonas feared it would thwart Net2Phone's bid to become a de facto standard.
Entrepreneur Simon Rigby offered to buy the iconic bus station after Preston Council voted to demolish it because of running and refurbishing costs.
Instead of being automatically offered to schools, head teachers now decide whether they want to buy it in as a means of helping their pupils.
They've offered millions more to buy the Hemingway house for fair market value and move it to another location nearby.
People offered the banknote believed, on average, that they could use it to buy 83 paperclips, 72 napkins or 46 sweets.
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Several years after moving it to a website, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos offered to buy the site in a cash-and-stock deal, the value of which has never been disclosed.
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Now Redstone says he has offered to buy Shari's 20% stake in National Amusements, or to swap it for the theater chain, if she's willing to assume some debt on that real estate.
Although the CTS was priced similar to the entry level luxury cars offered by other car manufacturers, it was heavier and bigger in size which prompted customers to buy the lighter and more sporty German imports.
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