Open AccessThe Ring and the Books
Author(s) -
Bruce Whiteman
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
rbm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2150-668X
pISSN - 1529-6407
DOI - 10.5860/rbm.9.2.310
Subject(s) - thou , ring (chemistry) , advertising , business , art , philosophy , theology , chemistry , organic chemistry
Do you see this ring?~Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book (1868)Thou shalt not ever bid on anythingWhen it’s so lucrative to form a ring.~Ian Jackson, An Antiquarian ABC (1998)In the auction trade, a “ring” refers to a group of buyers who collude before a sale to keep prices down by agreeing not to compete against one another. When the sale is over, all of the items that have been “ringed” are then reauctioned (the “knockout”) among the members of the ring in a private setting, and each more or less gets what he or . . .