{"id":11839,"date":"2009-08-10T09:01:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T13:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=11839"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:29:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:29:54","slug":"up-in-the-bid-leagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/08\/10\/up-in-the-bid-leagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Up in the bid leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Las Vegas Business Press<\/em> profiles Elliot Moskow &#8217;10, chairman, CEO and founder of the auction site Pricefalls.com. He tells reporter Valerie Miller why he chose to site the firm, founded in 2008 at Bates, in Las Vegas: partly for family reasons (his father, a physician, lives and works there) and partly for business reasons. &#8220;Las Vegas would be at the top of our list for a location,&#8221; he says, &#8220;because it is business-friendly and low-tax.&#8221; Pricefalls.com conducts Dutch auctions, in which a product&#8217;s price starts high and drops until buyers jump in. The time is right for Pricefalls, he says. &#8220;Consumers want to see prices fall and companies want to liquidate inventory. The startup&#8217;s Bates flavor also includes Chad Casey &#8217;09, creative and marketing director; and Peter Schaefer &#8217;10, CIO and executive vice president. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvbusinesspress.com\/articles\/2009\/08\/10\/business_life\/iq_30417973.txt\">(View Text)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas Business Press profiles Elliot Moskow &#8217;10, chairman, CEO and founder of the auction site Pricefalls.com. He tells reporter Valerie Miller why he chose to site the firm, founded in 2008 at Bates, in Las Vegas: partly for family reasons (his father, a physician, lives and works there) and partly for business reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,130,133,11009],"tags":[11051,11302],"class_list":["post-11839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-collaboration","category-creativity","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-business-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93325,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839\/revisions\/93325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}