What is a fun psychological trick to try on someone?

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2024-07-07 18:21 PM

What is a fun psychological trick to try on someone?

I didn’t invent this trick, but I’ve used it successfully many times. It requires a group of people, ideally at least 30, and the more competitive the group is, the better, so groups of doctors and lawyers are ideal!

It’s called “The Five Dollar Auction.”

You stand up in front of the group, and hold up a five dollar bill.

You explain that you will auction this five dollar bill off, and the highest bidder gets it, even if the high bid only a dime. Bidding starts at 10 cents, and goes up in increments of 10 cents or more. There’s just one trick to this auction, and that is that when the auction ends, whoever has the second highest bid also has to pay, but doesn’t get anything. Everyone understand?

Heads nod, and you ask if anyone will bid a dime for the five dollar bill?

Bidding also proceeds quickly at first, and once the bids are at $2.60 and $2.50, you are guaranteed a profit.

Bidding continues quickly until the high bid gets to about $4.90. At that point the second highest bidder realizes that they will lose $4.80, unless they bid $5 and break even, so invariably they bid $5. There’s usually a brief pause at this point, but then the other bidder (there’s always only two bidders at this point) realizes that they will lose $4.90 unless they bid $5.10, so better to lose 10 cents than $4.90.

Once bids are over $5, the value of the item is forgotten, and it becomes a battle between the two remaining bidders, each of them alternately deciding it is better to bid higher and at least end up with the $5 bill. The competitiveness of the participants really comes into play at this point, and the bidding generally goes into higher and higher incremental bids, and can really go crazy when neither bidder wants to “lose” (even though they will both lose in the end).

The best result I ever had was with a group of about 40 surgeons, when the high bid was $410 and the second highest was $400; so $810 for a $5 bill!

The only time this came close to not working was when the two remaining bidders realized what was happening, and when the bids were at $20 and $19 they conferenced with each other and agreed to stop the bidding and split the loss evenly. Even in this case, though, the total proceeds were $39 for a $5 bill!

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Thank you for reading.