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From: Kukoc

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192606.23 in reply to 192606.21
Date: 8/3/2011 3:23:15 PM
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Glad I could help!

From: loldots

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192606.24 in reply to 192606.23
Date: 8/3/2011 3:41:43 PM
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Glad I could help!

Kisses.

Last edited by loldots at 8/3/2011 3:42:05 PM

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192606.26 in reply to 192606.25
Date: 8/4/2011 3:10:17 AM
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Old same argument... The "problem" is not created by the downtimes, it is created by sellers putting players on sale for a low fee under the delusional expectation and assumption that it will drive prices up.

Unnecessary risks taken for unproven smallish gains.
D for situational evaluation and E for decision making ;p

Sellers shouldn't take buyers for clueless cows anyway.
The surprise comes from life being fair from time to time ;)

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192606.27 in reply to 192606.8
Date: 8/4/2011 7:20:04 PM
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You know it can happen, still you take the risk of listing a player too low. That's also a way of looking at it.

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192606.28 in reply to 192606.26
Date: 8/7/2011 7:21:10 AM
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The "problem" is not created by the downtimes, it is created by sellers putting players on sale for a low fee under the delusional expectation and assumption that it will drive prices up.


I think it is a lousy excuse to say its the users fault if he gets hurt by unforseeable server downtime. For some players you will get much more money if you start bidding at a lower price, so this is and will be a viable strategy.

A simple solution (we will never see, though), would be to let the seller set a reserve price, so if his price target wont get matched the player will remain with the team - even if there were bids on him.

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192606.29 in reply to 192606.28
Date: 8/7/2011 12:21:25 PM
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The "problem" is not created by the downtimes, it is created by sellers putting players on sale for a low fee under the delusional expectation and assumption that it will drive prices up.


I think it is a lousy excuse to say its the users fault if he gets hurt by unforseeable server downtime. For some players you will get much more money if you start bidding at a lower price, so this is and will be a viable strategy.

A simple solution (we will never see, though), would be to let the seller set a reserve price, so if his price target wont get matched the player will remain with the team - even if there were bids on him.


The counterargument is that no player has sold at less than his listed price. If there's a price you feel you want and won't accept less than that, there's already a perfect mechanism for that. If you list at a lower price, you can get more or you can get less. Having downtime interrupt a potential bidwar sucks, but not enough so to implement a system that can punish someone who has a winning bid, expecting to get their player, and then finds out that the auction meant nothing because no reserve was met.

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192606.31 in reply to 192606.30
Date: 8/7/2011 1:15:21 PM
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once I saw a player still on the market for an hour after it was supposed to end because people kept bidding. My point is...


Just imagine how irritated those poor people have been when they realized that after bidding for over an hour, only one guy gets the player.

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192606.32 in reply to 192606.31
Date: 8/7/2011 1:42:24 PM
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You can set the minimum price you are willing to accept already. Pointless whining.

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