A pattern in which a stated limit is treated as the opening bid in a negotiation rather than a decision deserving respect.
Pressure, guilt, persuasion, or persistence is used to see how much of the boundary can be purchased back.
NATURAL USAGE
“I gave you a boundary. You turned it into a Boundary Auction.”
Candidate term. Proposed as a Human As Hell original; not trademark-cleared or legally verified, and not claimed as exclusive.