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Originally Posted by GregMitch34
Called about an invoice, no big deal, but since I had him on phone asked about any possible changes in auction ending rules, given the uproar in some quarters over the end of this week's auctions which came at, what, 6 a.m. in the East? He was very friendly and responsive and talked about pros and cons of various ideas. He said, yes, it has gotten much worse lately so he would like to make change, but to what?
Says he once tried ending the lots separately but it was a "disaster'--many complained. Ending all at a fixed time, say 1 a.m., also draws complaints because people like to jump to other lots if they lose one. And so on. He says though there appears to be little action in the middle of the night a lot of dough gets bid on higher end lots. He ended by asking me for ANY ideas, very open to hearing, so if you want to propose some below, please do. Of course, it's a problem with several auctions, not just his.
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yes. increase the time for each lot, from 15 minutes to 30 minutes. this will allow flipping between lots, yet time out the ones with no activity.
people that want lots will adjust, getting proxy bidders to bid for them or expanding to have multiple monitors to watch all of their auctions, or having a single consolidated place to bid on things rather than having to have a giant page open to bid. a simple list view with a button, current price, next bid and bid button in more than enough.
for the love of god. if they need a developer, so kevin doesn't have stay up till 7am on every auction, he may just volunteer some design ideas and development time.
kevin