Allotment is a method of distributing securities to investors when an issue has been oversubscribed. The sale was oversubscribed meaning that investors bids wereabout $8 billion. At its IPO, shares were oversubscribed by 1070 percent. Its offer for shares was many times oversubscribed. Its initial public offering (IPO) in November 2004 was oversubscribed by 130 per cent. The IPO was oversubscribed more than 100 times. The IPO was oversubscribed by 14.17 times. The stock was oversubscribed 64 times in its IPO. The sale was oversubscribed with 36 bids totaling Rs. 20 billion. The IPO was oversubscribed by 15 times. The ballot has always been substantially oversubscribed. On 7 July 1997, ProSieben went public, the shares were oversubscribed 50-fold. The initial public offering was three times oversubscribed. It was oversubscribed 37 times after its initial offering. The buses would also be oversubscribed at peak-times by schoolchildren.