Odd flex?

The "auction" place of BST has never been my thing. I'm guessing it's fun to occasionally sell items this way, as I see a lot of repeat sellers. To me it just too much work to be making bids on $1 or $2 increments and then be checking back, monitoring the close, etc. But to each his own. Personally I would rather just see it below in a categoy for $10 or $15 dollars or whatever seems like a fair price.

I figured it was just to tell people it's gone and don't bother me about it if you happen to see this in 6 months.

Perhaps this is a bit relevant...

547. “When I say bump, you say how many times!”
The seeming arrogance of members sending their threads to the top much too often for anyone’s liking.

Whatever happened to Bocabirdman and all those cool 1950s Topps and Bowman cards he auctioned every week? Not being inherently wealthy, stuff like that is what I find interesting in the live auction sub. I bought/won a number of 1953 Bowman color cards off of that. And yes, I have likewise bought things from GoldenAge50s too. I've said it over and over until I'm blue in the face, this isn't a business or investment brokerage to me, I'm not trying to get rich with "ooh" and "ah" Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle graded baseball cards, it's just a hobby.

It's very easy to edit a post to say the item is sold without bumping it.

This brought a smile to my face

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Maybe there is a way to lock the auction thread as soon as it ends so it can't be bumped to disrupt the current auctions. If there are bids we already know it's sold, if no bids let it fall off the page.

I look at the auction page all the time. Those saying that it is crowded with random stuff and dominated by a few people aren't looking very hard. There aren't that many active auctions going, and only three active auctions are allowed at any one time by one person, and everyone abides by that. The auction section is fine in that respect. It isn't disorganized or overrun. Subfolders would definitely make things worse.

One change that I believe would make it better for buyers and sellers would be to have a set weekly close time for all auctions (perhaps this was mentioned, I didn't read all the comments), You can add an auction anytime, but the close time would be the set time (perhaps also with a 5 minute after last bid extension policy to mitigate the snipe effect). This way, bidders could easily keep track of the auction end times, and, presumably, there would therefore be more active bidding each week. It would be a weekly event, and the event would attract greater participation. maybe.

And I might add, stuff that's affordable makes it fun!

Those are some pretty good thoughts (as well as many others)...
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