Ok, someone explain Neo-Auctions to me...
Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:36 am
In a real-life auction, the auctioneer sets a starting price, someone bids that amount, and then the bidding goes up from there, right? (Ex. - say I'm auctioning my car. I want the bids to start at $10,000. The first bidder bids $10k, and then bidding continues from that price until the auction is over.)
In a Neo auction, a user names their starting price, and then the minimum increment of consecutive bids. But the bidding doesn't START at their asking price, it starts at the first increment value. (i.e. - I'm looking at an auction for a plushie petpet paint brush right now. The starting price is 100k, the min. increment for bids is 95k, but the asking price for the first bid is 195k.)
Does this seem messed up to anyone besides me? Shouldn't the first bid in a Neo-auction be the starting price, with continual bids following the minimum increment?
In a Neo auction, a user names their starting price, and then the minimum increment of consecutive bids. But the bidding doesn't START at their asking price, it starts at the first increment value. (i.e. - I'm looking at an auction for a plushie petpet paint brush right now. The starting price is 100k, the min. increment for bids is 95k, but the asking price for the first bid is 195k.)
Does this seem messed up to anyone besides me? Shouldn't the first bid in a Neo-auction be the starting price, with continual bids following the minimum increment?
Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:40 am
Thats true. It's always the little things that seem to annoy people the most 
To make things more realistic, maybe you should be able to set auctions so that they're more like eBay? 0_o
Nah, that'd annoy the heck outta a lot of Auction Snipers wouldn't it? :
To make things more realistic, maybe you should be able to set auctions so that they're more like eBay? 0_o
Nah, that'd annoy the heck outta a lot of Auction Snipers wouldn't it? :
Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:43 am
teh0mega wrote:Thats true. It's always the little things that seem to annoy people the most
lol Well it always bugs the heck outta me when I see something up for auction (like that darn plushie petpet pb!) that has a really low starting price, and then I notice that the min. increment is double that amount. I wanna be able to bid 100k, darn it!! xD
To make things more realistic, maybe you should be able to set auctions so that they're more like eBay? 0_o
Nah, that'd annoy the heck outta a lot of Auction Snipers wouldn't it? :
Good! Darn auction snipers and their sniping!!! Darn them, I say!!
Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:44 am
that's always bugged me too. let's write the editorial!
Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:52 am
Good, I'm not crazy then!
lol That's a great idea, but I'll leave it to you. I've written at least 50 notes to the Editorial, and none have ever been picked. So if I write about this, we'll never even see an answer, much less a solution to the problem. xD
lol That's a great idea, but I'll leave it to you. I've written at least 50 notes to the Editorial, and none have ever been picked. So if I write about this, we'll never even see an answer, much less a solution to the problem. xD
Mon Nov 29, 2004 11:05 am
Erin wrote:Good, I'm not crazy then!
lol That's a great idea, but I'll leave it to you. I've written at least 50 notes to the Editorial, and none have ever been picked. So if I write about this, we'll never even see an answer, much less a solution to the problem. xD
out of over fifty thousand a week
good idea, although a lot my items on ebay are never mailed to me xDD
Mon Nov 29, 2004 11:25 am
They should call it eBabyYurble.
Mon Nov 29, 2004 11:34 am
Well, people set their auction prices according to the auction system. If this were changed you still wouldn't be seeing cheap auctions...
Mon Nov 29, 2004 5:49 pm
I thought the point of neoauctions is not to bid until the last second. Snipe Snipe snipe