Leland's Strange Lot Results or Software Bug?

[bobfreedman]

Originally Posted by calvindog

Does auction software actually allow a bidder to bid against himself?

Our software does not allow you to bid against yourself unless the lot has a reserve. If an item has a reserve, our software treats each bid below the reserve as a straight bid. Once it exceeds the reserve then you cannot bid against yourself, only raise your Max bid without raising the current bid. We do not do Leland's software but this is response to Your post and others.

Bob Freedman
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CEO SimpleAuctionSite

[Runscott]

I have seen this before - it is not uncommon in auction software: if you do not click the 'proxy bid' box, it takes your new bid as a bid against yourself. Not sure about Bob's software, but I haven't seen that it has any advantage over what Leland's uses - for the most part I prefer Lelands. Regarding the accidentally unchecked 'proxy bids' box - I've done this a couple of times and each time simply called the auction house and they corrected the issue. I don't think it was Lelands in either case.

The only clearly inferior auction software is Hunts, but even that can be easily dealt with.