Auction Question!

chaotic • 25 August 2017 at 8:15 PM

Ok, so I am new to this whole new Eggcave. I was wondering if this was normal. Ok, so lets say:

♦Bid Increment is 1,000,000 EC
♦I Bid
♦Then the next person bids, but bids only 1,000 EC ...even though the bid increment is 1,000,000 EC

Is this how Auctions work now?? I'm so confused. I am sure I missed something but...help enlighten me?? x3 Image at:

http://i.imgur.com/31ThR2x.png

Lets see if that link works haha

plisser9 • 25 August 2017 at 8:36 PM

@chaotic No, you're not missing anything. That's definitely an error.

chaotic • 25 August 2017 at 8:45 PM

@plisser9 do I submit a ticket? Or...how do we do that now?

Edit:
Oh! It was auction number #225245 if that helps??

wigglytuff • 25 August 2017 at 9:30 PM

@chaotic I think I know.... u guys literally submitted at the same time, the website thingymabob code thing couldn't tell, something like that? Idk. @orderedchaos why don't ya help us out.

Orderedchaos • 26 August 2017 at 11:15 AM

@chaotic @wigglytuff
That is certainly odd. I've passed this along to Ian so he can figure out what happened and fix it.

wigglytuff • 26 August 2017 at 11:23 AM

@orderedchaos okie, thanks😃

chaotic • 26 August 2017 at 11:48 AM

@Orderedchaos thank you =)
@wigglytuff Thank you for helping =) I know the person who did it, definitely didn't seem bothered by it, so it's probably not the first time. Hopefully it gets fixed!! I really appreciate the help =)

wigglytuff • 26 August 2017 at 11:53 AM

@chaotic no prob.

Ian • 28 August 2017 at 2:40 PM

@chaotic @plisser9 @wigglytuff @Orderedchaos

After further reviewing this, while situations like this are extremely rare, they can indeed happen. Notice the time stamps on both bids... they were essentially submitted to the server at the same exact time only microseconds apart and, when both bids were submitted, they were using the previous bid (prior to either of the two) of 2 million EC.

Basically, when both were submitted at the same time, they were accepted as "valid" bids because they both looked at the previous existing bid of 2m EC.

The person with the highest bid will always win the auction no matter what.

I hope that this makes sense. Let me know if you have any more questions.

chaotic • 28 August 2017 at 3:42 PM

@Ian That is very good to know. Thank you so much for the explanation =)