REAs " Honest Auto Bid (TM) "

[Peter_Spaeth]

In post 16 Bob said the "vast majority" of AH's using Simple Site employ the feature we have been discussing, so by negative implication at least some don't, is how I read that.

[Kevin.Shenker]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

In post 16 Bob said the "vast majority" of AH's using Simple Site employ the feature we have been discussing, so by negative implication at least some don't, is how I read that.

I agree. That is my interpretation as well, but he isn't coming out and saying that directly. If that is the case, own it and just say it without skirting around the issue at hand.

[swarmee]

He is alluding to the fact that some auctionhouses have it in their auction rules that they are allowed to bid on their own items up to some "hidden reserve." This board has exposed those sites in previous threads. So those are your likely culprits when it comes to those who have access to the max bids on their sites.
There is no reason he should speak for all his clients without their permission on this site.

[Kevin.Shenker]

Why allude?

I am relatively new here, can someone point me at the conversation about this or iterate which sites fit into that category?

Also, is that the auction house bidding on items they own which are in the auction, or auction house customers bidding on their own items?

[swarmee]

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...=shill+bidding

Page 4 has these links:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/52660...s+in+heritage-

http://www.legendaryauctions.com/rules.aspx

As he is a business partner of many sites (some of which can't see your bids and some of which can), I completely understand his reasoning not to inform on his customers.

[autograf]

Someone could have all the bids/passwords/etc NOT available to them and still have rules to bid up to a certain preset limit. Those could be mutually exclusive. If someone sets a reserve on a lot and the AH can bid up to that point, it could be done either with or without the ability to view max bids and passwords.

I think Scott (Brockelman) hit the nail on the head for the most part and that's feeling comfortable with who you are bidding with. Whether it's the honest auto-bid or whatever you want to call the software, it does help build that comfortability though as I'm sure there were a lot of people comfortable with bidding with Mastronet, et al during 'the day'...........

[Griffins]

I just got off the phone with Al Crisafulli of Love of the Game Auctions. He is travelling thru the southwest and unable to get to this thread until tonite, but he asked me to post on his behalf that "LOTG unequivocally cannot see bids nor passwords" and cannot access the settings that would allow that.