Thanks for the edit. It wasn’t my intention to “tease” people; my idea isn’t the focus of this post, I’m hoping other people will suggest better ones. I just wanted to mention that I had an idea as a way of showing that there exist plausible solutions, and to signal that I had put some thought into it myself and wasn’t just “asking people to do my homework” as it were.
This isn’t downvoted as I expected, so maybe I’m overreacting. I don’t find the setup clear enough to answer (mixing very different aspects of discovery and price-setting, switching from auction to very-low-volume assymetric-information transactions, confusing theory of incentive-compatibility and strategy-proofness with the practical annoyance of car salesman tactics). But maybe it’s just me—I look forward to your actual post that explains which aspects of things your idea addresses, and how.
Thanks for the edit. It wasn’t my intention to “tease” people; my idea isn’t the focus of this post, I’m hoping other people will suggest better ones. I just wanted to mention that I had an idea as a way of showing that there exist plausible solutions, and to signal that I had put some thought into it myself and wasn’t just “asking people to do my homework” as it were.
This isn’t downvoted as I expected, so maybe I’m overreacting. I don’t find the setup clear enough to answer (mixing very different aspects of discovery and price-setting, switching from auction to very-low-volume assymetric-information transactions, confusing theory of incentive-compatibility and strategy-proofness with the practical annoyance of car salesman tactics). But maybe it’s just me—I look forward to your actual post that explains which aspects of things your idea addresses, and how.
Here’s the post, hopefully that explains what I was thinking about.