Dan owns an autographed copy of a Brittany Spears CD that he values at $100. If he sells the CD at the garage sale he's planning to hold in a few weeks, it will be sold to a buyer with a reservation price of $175. If he sells it on eBay, it will be sold to a buyer with a reservation price of $500. eBay will charge Dan $50 to auction the CD, which just covers eBay's opportunity cost of running the auction. Relative to selling the CD at his garage sale, auctioning the CD on eBay will lead:
A. total economic surplus to increase by $100.
B. total economic surplus to increase by $500.
C. to no change in total economic surplus.
D. total economic surplus to increase by $275.
Answer: D
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