“We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened,” the judge, Christopher Lopez, said in an emergency hearing on Thursday afternoon. “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction.”

Oh bullshit.

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      Auctions are contracts, most of them are beholden to the highest bidder. I am guessing thr lawyers are either being paid to make media waves, or they didn’t read the terms of the auction.

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        The trustee and auction house are allowed to accept lower bids. Especially ones that make the creditors more whole, which this one does. So no that’s not why

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          Ok. Well, feel free to tell everyone why since you seem to know so much.

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            Jones is raising a stink because he feels like the bidding process was cut short and the rules were changed once his bid was the clear winner. He’s a moron and he’s wrong and he’s also not allowed to bid, so his bid by proxy will hopefully be caught and punished

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              Im glad you were there. But you should have told the New York Times, the AP, and the Guardian instead of us.

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                Maybe you should have read up on the story before running your mouth. Could have saved yourself a lot of embarrassment by just saying “oh thanks I didn’t know” but here we are I guess

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        Sellers have a right to accept lower bids, or to accept non-monetary “value” and it happens literally every day in real estate.

        What I don’t know is whether the nature of the auction actually changes things.