The bid started at $250,000, and the sale was scheduled to close November 4, 2010?

The bids started at $160,000 and went to $205,000.

The bids started at $500 and rose quickly: $800, $1,500, $2,750, $2,900, $3,300.

Planning for the project began in mid-2006, and opening bids started in late 2008.

Competing bids will start at $26.35 million at the May 11 auction.

The bid starts to the dealer's left and proceeds clockwise around the table.

The bids from contractors started coming in, with not one under $40,000, and some topping $50,000.

But when the bids from the contractors started rolling in, they hovered around $300,000.

To her shock, when the bids started coming in, they were double that estimate; almost $500,000.

The Government has stipulated that bids start at $2.1 billion.