Auctions

[georgecat]

I have been in a few final bidding wars in the marketplace. It says that there is one minute left. That one minute seems to extend to many minutes. Why is this? confused  

[DragaDuVrangr]

If you are just sitting at the auction page anxiously waiting for time to expire then it won't, or at least you wont see it until you refresh the page. A page won't update until it has been refreshed.  

[AvianFlame]

Actually, Gaia changed the way auctions worked a few months back to prevent people from jumping a bid up at the last second.

Every time a bid is placed, the auction time is extended by 5 minutes I belive.


~Avianflame  

[Avzel]

AvianFlame

Actually, Gaia changed the way auctions worked a few months back to prevent people from jumping a bid up at the last second.

Every time a bid is placed, the auction time is extended by 5 minutes I belive.


~Avianflame

That's bizarre...that means an auction could go on indefinitely.
I see the problem they were trying to solve, but still.  

[AvianFlame]

OV8ION

AvianFlame

Actually, Gaia changed the way auctions worked a few months back to prevent people from jumping a bid up at the last second.

Every time a bid is placed, the auction time is extended by 5 minutes I belive.


~Avianflame

That's bizarre...that means an auction could go on indefinitely.
I see the problem they were trying to solve, but still.

Yes. And added to that, you can only cancel an auction you create before the first 5 minutes xp  

[georgecat]

Thanks everybody for your help.