looks at two-sided markets so that literature usually what happens is you're kind of given a fixed basket of stuff to sell and then you're allowed to use whatever mechanism you want to sell up to a deadline and like the canonical example is airline tickets so you're an airline you're selling seats and so you have like planes that are empty and you have a bunch of seats to sell up to a deadline when the plane actually takes off you're allowed to use whatever pricing policy you want to set prices for the seats okay in our case kind of