Right, I mean as Lucas D wisely pointed out somewhere in one of these threads, no one can buy more Stewies than there are Stewies available to them for sale.Doug Cuomo wrote: ↑4 years agoThis, and the rest I didn't quote. As usual Laura is right on the money. This combined with the partnership changes seems the best way to handle it to me at least.Laura Smith wrote: ↑4 years ago I think the large-format auctions are by far the best way to go. One big auction with a couple hundred horses. Limit 2 or 3 per player.
Applied to this set of comments...........the specialized auctions made it so that every player that could afford to do so got 4 or 5 or 6 shots at the cream of the crops in a given division. That's not necessarily right or wrong, but it is how the prices go up, and the high quality gets consolidated.
The TBS Auctions have run a lot of different ways just in my short time here --- sometimes 2 or 3 auctions per year, sometimes 4 almost simultaneously, sometimes a parade of specialty auctions. It's fine to have it tried different ways, and in most cases those methodologies were spelled out pretty clearly by Em.
If the actual goal is to keep the quality high, but also keep the prices somewhat in check, then the answer logically seems to be that you would have a large sale with relatively tight parameters, and let the market sort itself out from there.