It's really getting a bit boring having to go through this again.
You can't compare Otium's bid with anyone elses, because they are not comparable.
The vast majority of Otium's bid would have been paid to themselves - what is often referred to as "wooden dollars". Other bids, would actually have involved real money rather than a couple of inter-group journals.
OK?
Of course.
In fact had any other bidder outbid them based on a rough guess at it maybe being worth something, you'd (in a general rather than specific sense!) be questioning their sanity and questioning if having such mentalists taking over was really in our interest.
To bid at all pretty insane full stop really IMHO. Win it and you could have been left with a dead dog and puss filled sores.
Doesn't mean nobody is interested however, if nobody bids under those conditions... it just means they're not mentalists.
Keep the discourse open for the white knight to appear from the dark mists, unseen and unknown until he emerges out the shadows.
