I have been having this trouble for a few weeks.
I had 54,000 gold in the account on the auctiononeer.When I make a bid on something, here is what happens:
1. I get a message that says "sorry there is an existing higher bid on that item, ,maybe next time
2. The maximum bid on that item goes up 100 gold pieces higher than it was before I tried to bid on it or atleast as much as my bid was plus the current bid on the item.
3. when I type "status" I get the message that "there are no items in that catagory that are relevant"
Forgive me for being dense, but I am stumped on how this works. Is it working at all? I was trying to bid on the ragged map that is on him now, the bid
was 1,100 gold, I bid 5000 on it and now the
top bid is 6,400.I am not on the list though, I cannot , for whatever reason, use the auctioneer at all. It's not like you need a manual to do it, so I dunno. . .I still have 54,000 gold in my account.
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by _Segovia_ on Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:46 pm
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by Kasia/Ki'Anna on Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:59 pm
What is most likely happening is someone has placed a large sum of gold on the item in case someone bids on it.So you will keep getting the outbid message until your bid is higher than the maximum gold they placed on the item.
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by Eldric on Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:02 pm
In another thread Drocket posted this, hope it helps.
Drocket wrote:I believe the easiest way to think of the way the auctioneer works is to consider him(/her) a friend who will bid on your behalf. Instead of actually bidding 50k (for example) on an item, you instead tell the auctioneer that you're willing to bid up to 50k on said item. Your good friend the auctioneer will then try to get the item for you at the cheapest possible price.
Lets say an item goes up with a starting price of 10k. You then come along and bid 20k. Your friend the auctioneer doesn't actually bid 20k for you all at once - if he did, you might wind up paying a lot more than its currently going for. He starts off by bidding 10k on your behalf (but remembers that you gave him permission to bid up to 20k.) Someone else then comes along and bids 15k, at which time the auctioneer increases your bid automatically to 16k so that you're still the highest bidder. If the other party then bids 20k, your bid also gets increased to 20k (and you're still the highest bidder because you were there first.) If the other party then bids 21k, the auctioneer remembers that you told him that you'd only be willing to bid 20k maximum, so he drops out on bidding on your behalf.
So to sum up: when you're bidding on an item, don't worry about bidding the minimum amount that you would need to to win the auction. You'd then just need to keep running back and forth checking to see if someone else outbid you, and that would be a lot more work than it needs to be. Instead, just tell the auctioneer the maximum amount that you'd be willing to pay for the item and let him do all the work. He'll worry about the details and work to get your the cheapest price he can.
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by Dell-Leafsong on Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:04 pm
It's complicated.
The reason the bid only goes up 100 gold or so even when you bid 5k is that the auctioneer is trying to get you the item at the lowest possible price. You set your maximum bid to 5k, and until someone bids more than that, you'll win the item. You don't have to pay all 5k gold though unless someone else bids on the item raising it but not beating your 5k.
If your 54k total hasn't gone down any, it's because you're not the leader on anything. You're free to bid all that gold on whatever auction you want. You can even collect it back from her. She's very prompt with such requests and only charges a fee on comlete sales.
I hope I didn't confuse you any, but if the status says you're not bidding on anything, and your auction money pool hasn't gone down at all, then you're not winning any of the auctions. You need to recheck them and bid higher probably. This is the only way Drocket could script it so that you as a buyer don't know exactly what the high bid is. Keeping it blind is the only fair way to run auctions that run unattended for days at a time.
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WOOPS...beaten to the punch
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The reason the bid only goes up 100 gold or so even when you bid 5k is that the auctioneer is trying to get you the item at the lowest possible price. You set your maximum bid to 5k, and until someone bids more than that, you'll win the item. You don't have to pay all 5k gold though unless someone else bids on the item raising it but not beating your 5k.
If your 54k total hasn't gone down any, it's because you're not the leader on anything. You're free to bid all that gold on whatever auction you want. You can even collect it back from her. She's very prompt with such requests and only charges a fee on comlete sales.
I hope I didn't confuse you any, but if the status says you're not bidding on anything, and your auction money pool hasn't gone down at all, then you're not winning any of the auctions. You need to recheck them and bid higher probably. This is the only way Drocket could script it so that you as a buyer don't know exactly what the high bid is. Keeping it blind is the only fair way to run auctions that run unattended for days at a time.
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WOOPS...beaten to the punch
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