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Organization (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2019 reportablesegment categories	Jul. 10, 2018
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of product categories offered (in categories) | categories	500
Reportable segments (in segments) | reportablesegment	4
Machinio
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Percentage acquired		100.00%

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Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 805
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)
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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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