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interesting concept

some alternatives or other thoughts.
- request's to push back the time require user to submit a valid bid. (So it could be like, a BID + TIME EXTENSION)
- Time extension might automatically add, say, 15% to the bid? (ie: Bid at $1m with extension auto becomes $1.15m)
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actually u raise an interesting point and im just sitting here thinking about it - if the actual problem is that in a 3 day bid, a user may not be available to bid during the bidding war, then maybe we just need to make it a minimum 5 day bid time?

there might still be a bidding war at the end, but at least there is more time in the lead up to see the player, put a bid on, etc....

other options might be
- hidden Reserve price, set by the seller. If reserve is met more than 24 hours before bid close time, person whom hits the Reserve price first gets the player. This might work in getting people to bid higher, earlier and reduce the number of 'bidding wars'
- Have the option to go 'market price' or 'agreed price' whereby, agreed price is the current bid system, however the seller may choose 'market price' by which the player is basically on the market at a 'Buy It Now' type of concept.

anyways just throwing a few ideas out there.

It could lead to 'arranged buying'. Ie set the reserve, tell ur friend what the reserve is and when it's going on the market.

But as long as the reserve is within the acceptable price range then its above board right?

how else could u cheat? Could be another way?

ok yer, but all those problems exist now right?
Im sure there would be a way to setup something a bit more rigid to prevent cheating.
eg: Fixed price auction price has to be within the TPE price range.

impossible to set otherwise.

This would prevent low price sales based cheating.

Not sure how it would cover how priced sales cheating - eg: i pay $1m for your player, because the TPE said between $250k and $4 billion.

But maybe the only reason why the TPE is so over-inflated sometimes is because of illegal selling?

still i think if you had it fixed for the current TPE, then that should resolve most cheating problems?

im under-estimating something that you suggest is occurring as an opinionated item?

If multi-accounting was occuring, as a fact, then BB would pick these up.

If multi-accounting isn't being picked up by BB, then maybe your opinion about how much it is occurring, is in fact wrong?

Am happy to be pointed to various threads where evidently prove team's that are blatantly cheating but have not been caught.

Last edited by Coach Regan at 3/14/2015 6:18:46 AM

So perhaps the one side-point out of all of this is.....

- TPE is broken or unreliable.... so why have it? If it is providing a false indication most of the time, then what is its use? What future does it have? Is there an alternative?

Maybe a new thread for that one B)