In all, 20 Mk V SOC units were delivered to USSOCOM at a unit cost of $3.7 million.
" Hey OP, listen to my advice alright." -Tha General "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." -Stigler's Law of Eponymy, discovered by Robert K. Merton MYT
" Hey OP, listen to my advice alright." -Tha General "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." -Stigler's Law of Eponymy, discovered by Robert K. Merton MYT
OK, so I learned something today - but I'm still not sure I get what is going on.
Bidder #9 (privately) has a higher bid than #8 (but likely well above what we see as the bid), so now the current bid is a smidgeon higher than #8? via a Proxy Bid?
Last edited by Unagi on Thu May 02, 2019 1:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.
yes, the bid history doesn't actually show the real history, it appears to only show the final effective bid for each bidder.
bidder #1 bids 1000.
bidder #2 bids $2000, proxy sets bid to prior max + increment (let's say $100), so $1100 is the public max bid.
bidder #3 bids $1500
based on bidder #2 max the proxy immediately bids $1600 for bidder#2, so $1600 is the public max bid.
Unagi wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2019 12:58 pm
OK, so I learned something today - but I still not sure I get what is going on.
Bidder #9 (privately) has a higher bid than #8 (but likely well above what we see as the bid), so now the current bid is a smidgeon higher than #8? via a Proxy Bid?
Correct. If you bid a max amount, say 500K, it will automatically bid the next increment on any subsequent bids under that amount.
" Hey OP, listen to my advice alright." -Tha General "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." -Stigler's Law of Eponymy, discovered by Robert K. Merton MYT
Looks like the winning bid was $225,500; similar to what a used Great Lakes fishing charter goes for, but somewhat larger and probably commensurately more expensive to run and maintain. But hey, from the looks of it, if you have a need to transport your SUV for some off-roading on a remote island, this is probably what you need.
Jaymann wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 8:29 pm
The second best day of the bidder's life...
Who's going to be the sap that buys it from them and gives them the best day of their life?
Or not. The price of a used fishing charter I got from a captain we used about 10-12 times over a 5 year or so span. He was a year from paying off the mortgage on it and retiring when he got killed working on the engines. Twin V-8s; I don't know the details but he did the engine work himself I imagine something failed and he dropped it on himself.
He told us a story once about a customer who wanted to charter him for a pleasure cruise to Chicago (he was out of Waukegan, 35-40 miles north). He told the customer that the cost would simply be prohibitive; he was better off taking a train into the city and chartering a boat there. He estimated the gas alone would have cost more than $500.
This reminds me though -- a former minion has a cabin cruiser out of New Buffalo, MI. I'll be camping near there this summer and he owes me a ride...