Membership is FREE, giving all registered users unlimited access to every Acorn Domains feature, resource, and tool! Optional membership upgrades unlock exclusive benefits like profile signatures with links, banner placements, appearances in the weekly newsletter, and much more - customized to your membership level!

Flip UK Auction boomerang

Someone is playing with our patience...

guaton-computadora.gif
 
Last edited:
Heh this is why extending auctions is never a good thing. This could go on for hours. I would have thought at least if auctions are being extended they would only be extended with a new higher bid.
 
This could go on for hours. I would have thought at least if auctions are being extended they would only be extended with a new higher bid.

I think it's reasonable to extend on higher bids (as currently happening), but 5 minutes is too long. There should probably be a penalty for late bids (maybe higher bid increments closer to the end time).
 
But the high bidder has had the high bid since 14:58. Each new bid isn't changing the high bidder. It would make sense to extend if that happens but as it stands this bidder could have a high bid that's several hours away from now and might still not win. I am not involved btw just an observation. Surely it would make more sense, if the auction site wants to extend, to extend only a few seconds to give the new bidder a chance to bid again until they hit their maximum bid or win. That means the auction would most likely end the same way it's going to anyway - just a lot quicker.
 
Well spotted, I hadn't noticed the auto bids! Although I think you mean the highest bid since 15:03:50.
 
Judging by the bids they put their bid in at 14:58:16 and every bid since then they have automatically outbid. However if bidder 7 has a maximum, say of 5k, then they could extend the auction for a long time - whereas if they placed a bid, were told they were automatically outbid, had eg 30 seconds to increase that bid, they could keep doing that until they hit their 5k and lost or got the winning bid which would *then* extend the auction 5 minutes.
 
Or they could just put a maximum bid of £5k, and let the system process the result to determine the highest bidder.
 
Well that would be ideal but in my experience some people like to leave it to the very last minute and not use maximums :p I don't actually even see the point of the way this bidding is going - all the other bidder is doing is increasing the chance that someone else will join and bid past them. Maybe when this auction is done they could explain their reasoning. It would be interesting to see the logic.
 
Last edited:

The Rule #1

Do not insult any other member. Be polite and do business. Thank you!

Members online

No members online now.

Premium Members

Latest Comments

New Threads

Domain Forum Friends

Our Mods' Businesses

*the exceptional businesses of our esteemed moderators
General chit-chat
Help Users
  • No one is chatting at the moment.
      There are no messages in the current room.
      Top Bottom