When bargaining meets auctions: assessing the effect of best offer on eBay auctionsAuctionbargainingeBaypricesale probabilityD44C78C23In this paper, we apply a recently popularized methodology called 'matched listings' to eBay API data to study the effect of enabling eBay's bargaining feature on ...
platforms cannot address is when one side has an Karma—a start-up that launched a mobile appli- information or bargaining advantage over the other. cation in early 2012 that allows users to select, buy, Fearful of being exploited, the weaker party is un- and send presents from a variety ...
BargainingeBayOnline tradeUltimatum gameWe study the division of trade surplus in a natural field experiment on German eBay. Acting as a seller, we offer Amazon gift cards with face values between 5 and 500 Euro. eBay users, the subjects of our experiment, make price offers according to the ...
Best Offeronline auctionposted pricelisting strategyThis paper empirically compares between bargaining and posted price by using data of the fixed-price and the Best Offer listings in eBay Motors. We first show that, consistent with the view that bargaining incurs higher cost than price posting, ...