AUCTION METHOD AND AUCTION DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an auction method and auction device capable of deciding a successful bidder so as to bring profits to a seller side as much as possible even if bid for a combinational commodity is permitted when auction is performed for a plurality of commodities of which assignment time limits are different from each other.

SOLUTION: In this auction method, a bidding type auction which permits bids for each commodity or combinational commodities consisting of a plurality of commodities relating to a plurality of auction object commodities of which auction assignment time limits are different from each other by using a computer is performed. The successful bidder to one commodity or combinational commodities containing the commodity is decided based on a prescribed condition from the bidders who bid to one commodity or the combinational commodity containing the commodity every time when reaching the auction assignment time limit for the commodity.

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