Well, I have lived on the Atlantic coast and the Pacific coast, so I do understand where all the sentiments are coming from.
Putting all that aside, I'm fine with how all the various auctions work. As long as the rules are made clear to everyone from the get-go, it is fair game.
People always assume is is easy (or easier) for West coast people to stay up until very late hours to place late bids. It isn't. And obviously East coast people are free to sleep between 10PM and 3AM and then get up with the benefit of 5 hours sleep to rejoin the late bidding. Why is that presumptively impossible? Frankly I don't think that is any harder than forcing yourself to stay up until an unusually late hour with no sleep on the West coast.
My point - if you know the rules, you have no excuse...work with the rules.
(Not to mention the ability to leave max bids, but I leave that out of the piece for now since I'm just as averse to it as most others...even though I trust Al...)
Cheers,
Blair
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