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I was most surprised at this statement:

    Thank you to those who participated in this week’s SecondMarket auction
    for Facebook shares. The auction was successful and fully cleared
    at a per share price of $28.26. Next week, the floor price will
    be $26.25 and we will require a minimum sale of 25,000 shares. In 
    observance of the national MLK, Jr. holiday, please find the 
    adjusted auction timeline for next week below.
I've never used Second Market, so hopefully someone can explain things:

* How the heck is are they organizing their auctions? If someone wants to dump FB shares at $25.47, what's the problem?

* Why the minimum trade size of 25k shares? Is this driven by some sort of reporting requirement?

* They state that 2.7m shares have cleared their exchange. Should I conclude that the volume of shares on Second Market is 500k?

Something just doesn't seem to add up.



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