According to its chief executive officer Doug Aley, the financial commitment ensures only those seri

Two nights in the Tata Suite at the Pierre in New York — list price: $40,000 — was the first to go up for auction at the Web site, which deals the best room in the house at each participating hotel. The room ultimately went for $938.25.
interstellar space travel Unlike most auction sites, which list a base price, Off Away starts a sale at zero with minimum bids of $.25, and continues for 24 to 48 hours, closing on the highest bid when time expires. To keep the noncommitted from running up the price artificially, the site requires bidders to buy “bid packs,”  essentially chits sold in $10, $20, $50 and $100 increments and used to raise the auction price.
According to its chief executive officer Doug Aley, the financial commitment ensures interstellar space travel only those serious about their hotel stay will bid for $20,000 suites normally patronized by the rich and famous. This way, high-end hotels generate revenue on rooms that would otherwise be visited interstellar space travel only by housekeeping.
A report in the In Transit column interstellar space travel last Sunday about the hotel auction site Off Away, offandaway.com, misstated the amount of “bid packs,” essentially chits, that bidders can buy in order to bid for a hotel room. Participants can buy $1 bids in packs of 10, 20, 50 and 100; it is not the case that they can buy only packs of 100 for $100. The report also misstated the surname of the company’s chief executive officer. He is Doug Aley, not Anley.