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because TL prices work with a minimum bid of 1000.

If you bid, you need to raise at least with 1000.

Why?

It's just the way it is, and prevents people bidding 1 dollar above an other, which could result in redicoulously long bidwars.

There is no better answer I can give you. If you go to a real life auction, please ask the man in charge why you can not raise the high bid with 1 cent, or why you can't start a bid of 1 cent on an item where no starting bid is set on... maybe he has a better explanation then me. ;)

So why are we allowed to list with a starting bid of $1?

I don't remember the team, but when I checked transfer history, I saw exchanges of less than $1000...

don't know actually.

about you seeing exchanges for less, that would surprise me, but if it was realy so, I'm guessing it was a bug.

When you look at a team's transfers, you see the adjusted price. This considers any TL fees and taxes on players you havent had long enough etc. If you sell a player for 1000$ but only recieve 85% of this because of transfer fees, it will show 850$ on the players transfer history.

I'm almost sure this isn't true.

The transferhistory lists the price that was paid for the player.

No.

Every time a bid is made in the last three minutes before bidding ends the transfer time is extended three minutes, so theoretically you have infinite bidding.

indeed, and that means that if you have a few guys wanting to grab the player for just 1 dollar extra, they are probably spending hours. Which ofcourse is their own fault.
It gets nastier when a serious guy does bid a decent amount, and then every time the other guy goes up by 1...

1 is so small a number that one could say that by raising with 1, you actually are paying the same price.

example:
I bid 100000 on a player, Jack thinks, hey I want him for 100k to, so bids 100001. I say, okay, then I bid 110000, so Jack says, if you want him for 110k, so do I, so I bid 110001. Then I say okay, I bid 120000, so he says, hey I can do that, and bids 120001. this goes on until I bid 1000000, and still Jack says, okay, if you want him for 1M, then I want him for that price too, I bid 1000001.
This means that you will actually have to bid OVER the price you want to pay, to prevent Jack from buying him for the price you wanted him. Say the max you want to pay was 1100000, and Jack bids 1100001, he virtually has the player at the amount you would have wanted him for, and you'll have to bid for example 1110000 (an amount you wouldn't have wanted to give for the player) in order to get Jack to bid 1 more, and then leave him to Jack, but if Jack then suddenly says, hey, I don't want him for that amount, you are screwed.

So that is why bids need to be raised by some amount. To make sure every other bid actually is worth something more.

Hope this helps.

That assumes both players are logged on at the deadline to ensure they get the player. I would assume no one is that enveloped into the game to do that.

It's a common occurence.