1. Auctions make shopping a community ordeal: everyone knows what you bought, and how much you paid. If regular malls were this way would the avg. american citizen be in so much debt?
2. Auctions pressed heavily against some scarcity mentality A. seems to work under. She wasn't even trying to buy anything much. But what if she had wanted that goat, or that flat of tomatoes, or that fishing pole? And she hadn't played her cards right, and someone else had gotten it. It's not like a mall where she could just buy the one in blue, or the next one on the shelf. Some kind of trust would eventually have to be established, she would need to believe she would get what she needed or else a panic attack may ensue every Friday.
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