Any less, and you can wave farewell to the hope of a quick bulk sale."

Make sure that all bulk sale laws have been complied with in the transfer of the business assets.

"Auctioning is a way of accelerating sales through bulk sale.

The bulk sale program is intended to unload hard-to-sell properties.

"It is certainly quicker to do a bulk sale, but it may not produce the maximum value," he said.

The charity sold off five lots individually and placed the 69 remaining parcels on the market as a bulk sale.

Because this sort of bulk sale was the reality of the "club" market, the players should be valued in accordance with the market's nature.

Some board members contend that the Government's bulk sale will substantially hurt the value of the apartments owned by tenant-shareholders.

HOC is offering buyers a discount for a bulk sale.

However, a bulk sale would generally allow a storekeeper to abscond with money while leaving creditors unpaid.

"They got a better value using local brokers than with a bulk sale," Mr. Latella said.

Not wishing to see all that stuff abandoned in place, General Olmsted managed to work out a bulk sale to the Chinese government.

The panel also voted to charge Mr. Wright with violating House rules through the bulk sale of a book he wrote.

The purchase would be the largest such bulk sale of assets so far by the Resolution Trust Corporation, the agency charged with selling them.

The bulk sale dropped Ahmanson's nonperforming assets from 5.02 percent of total assets last fall to 2.04 percent.

First Chicago's bulk sale realised only 50%; BankAmerica's managed even less.

The sale of an entire inventory is not a bulk sale if it is sold to buyers in a manner that ensures adequate consideration.

As it is, some restrictions already exist in pharmacies and supermarkets, but the regulations should extend to the bulk sale of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine internationally.

Similarly, if a merchant has a deep discount sale, that is not a bulk sale as deep discounts can be made in the ordinary course of business.

While Prudential is planning a bulk sale, Mr. Divers said: "Our strategy was to lower the level of equity real estate even before the regulations.

Prudential said in early September that it was planning a bulk sale of $700 million of real estate and mortgage assets, largely foreclosed and commercial properties.

"The discounts in the bulk sale market are absurd," said Joseph A. DeLuca, Chemical's executive vice president in charge of real estate finance.

Another reason for high prices is that unregistered kiosk owners are not charged at the preferential bulk sale rate, but rather at the increasing-block rate for residential customers.

Even with the offer of a bulk sale of the apartments - some of which have Hudson River views - the F.D.I.C. had trouble attracting bids.

It was sold again to Bluestone Television who then sold it to the Bonten Media Group in a bulk sale with other stations for $230 million.

For $59, I could get tips like creating "eye-catching listings," or, for the more experienced, "bulk selling tools."

Andrea also claimed to be an expert in bulk sales, but waited until the last half-hour of the task to tell Allie this, where it would have made bulk selling virtually impossible to accomplish.

At the time of the proposals there was concern that the changes would lead to a bulk selling of assets just before the start of the 2008-09 tax year to benefit from existing taper relief.

PAGE A36 An Artist Is His Own Market In a move to protect himself from possible bulk selling, the British artist Damien Hirst is buying back his own work from the collector Charles Saatchi.

Reasons for win: While the all-male Gold Rush secured an exclusive deal with the Rutgers' cheerleaders and had a better marketing strategy from the beginning, the all-female Synergy devised an emergency plan that involved bulk selling and lot delivery to make up for their marketing handicap.