Auction Time

scorch_cloud222 • 29 January 2015 at 6:27 PM

I'm tired of the nonsense with the auctions. There is no way to win an auction fairly because everyone waits until the absolute last second to bid.

Here's my idea. If someone bids, it extends the auction by two minutes. That way, it can be an actual auction, instead of a contest who to see whose computer is fastest.

immortalraven • 29 January 2015 at 6:29 PM

@scorch_cloud222
I think they are pretty fair. I don't get all the ones I bid on but I do get some. This is how auctions usually work or at least all the ones I've been in outside of here x3

mastergemma • 29 January 2015 at 7:22 PM

@scorch_cloud222
I don't think this is fair as the auction holder provides a limited amount of time in an auction.

With auctions, it's a game of risk. You either risk a low price and get beaten or you risk a higher price and win. If you just keep adding time to the clock, the risk goes away and it's just a game of price. Highest online bidder.

The way it is now is actually more fair as everyone is under the same time limit and everyone bids at the last second so you have to play by their rules.

dionaea • 30 January 2015 at 1:27 PM

@scorch_cloud222

I agree, I've seen this implemented in an actual online auction site for real items and it works very well.

@mastergemma

And you're saying the situation now works? Even if you're not a cheapskate people can still outbid you by 1 EC at some auctions if they have faster internet/computer. The idea of an auction is to get the seller the best price available from an auction, so people should be allowed to finish bidding wars. Though perhaps there should be a bid of 1% of the currentbhighest bid to prevent said wars from taking forever. In real auctions bidding also goes on until nobody is willing to give more in a certain amount of time.

metaphor • 30 January 2015 at 7:18 PM

Auctions annoy the heck out of me (and admittedly, I am one of those people who will wait to bid at the last second but boy does it annoy me when I'm beat out by someone who just happened to offer up 5k more than me), but I'm not sure this is the best solution. Auction times are set for a reason. When it's over, it's over.

mastergemma • 30 January 2015 at 7:57 PM

@dionaea
Yeah, I'm saying that it works perfectly. There's a specific time that an auction goes for. If you miss the time then you miss the time. If I was a part of a website that did the auctions that you are talking about, I'd leave due to the injustice. There's a set time and that's the rules.

Not everyone is a winner in auctions, you can't win them all. Accept your defeat graciously and bid higher next time 😊

dionaea • 31 January 2015 at 10:12 AM

@mastergemma

A random auction house, someone just bid 5000 dollar for a trinket they really want, nobody has opened their mouth for ages. 'Going once, going twice.' '5001!' 'Sold for 5001.'

Happened in no auction house ever. The current system in unfair because it enables people to try and get a pet below the price it should be going for, simply because bidding is cut off. The person who obviously wants the pet has no possibility to answer despite possibly having no idea their winning bid has been challenged. Simply offer more next time? Some people actually have a life and don't specialize in prices or have time to offer on dozens of auctions to win a single pet.

The people who know what it's supposed to be going for will all bid in the final second, to ensure you have no chance to reply. Its a race to the bottom. Offer a little more in the final second to see how cheap you can get a pet. How is that a nice way of doing business?

Actually, don't answer that, because you probably think it's perfectly fair. To me this practice is about as low as offering newbies cave pets in exchange for LEs, just to see whether they're ignorant enough to accept.

[sarcasm]People who have offered a decent price in the first place should just suck it up if there's nothing going on mere seconds before ending time and then after reloading the page there are all of a sudden 15 new bids on their dream pet which are only up to 10000 more than their offer, but they have no option to reply with a higher bid. The ones who find this unfair are just soooo butthurt and whiny and ungracious. So what if the same thing had happened if they had offered 10000 more in the first place? They're just being sore losers and noobs. [/sarcasm]

bubblez • 31 January 2015 at 5:54 PM

@dionaea

" The current system in unfair because it enables people to try and get a pet below the price it should be going for"

People /set/ the price they want for pets. People /set/ the bid increments. When you auction things off, it's clearly not about getting a fair amount of EC. Otherwise you could just ask for the in the TC or forums. Not everyone here is greedy. And not everyone can afford some creatures. I got a Thief Shop creature for a cheap price. Doesn't mean anything. The user who auctioned it off knew the price of the creature but still auctioned it off cheaply. That's fair.

@scorch_cloud222

I disagree. Bidding at the last second, while annoying, is fair. I've lost a fair amount due to this, but oh well. If the time kept going on, an auction would go on. They have a set time limit for a reason. ^-^

Deleted • 11 February 2015 at 3:28 PM

Auction snipers should receive the fruit of their hard work and concentration.