We're running a kind of experiment for those who might not be able to attend these weekend auctions, but would still like to buy these cool items. Or possibly, to sink even more gold than we already have
Re-auction rules
You can buy the items that were sold at this weekend's auction, but only if you can outbid the price that the item was sold for.
Items on sale
The items that qualify for re-auction:
- everything from the "These items will be sold on the Saturday auction" list
- everything from the "These items will be sold on the Sunday auction" list
(see original post in this thread to see these lists).
The items are now also on display in the auction display room.
Starting bid and bidding
- The starting bid for each item is 10% more than the item was sold for this weekend.
- To submit your intent to buy an item, send a ticket thru the help system by December 15th, 23:59 shard time.
- If there is more than 1 player wanting a particular item, then all players will be joined in the same ticket, where they can bid on the item. The first player who sent the ticket already has a valid bid at 10% over the original price. The second player would then have to outbid them 10% over that price.
- The last bidder wins when there were no valid bids for 24 hours.
- The currency of the item is the same as the currency in which the item was originally sold at the auction
Upon winning, you need to be able to pay within 24 hours. Note that since this is manual, it might take longer than that, but overall just be sure to have the gold. If you don't have the gold, the bid is forfeited (and well, it goes down to the 2nd bidder, but this can get tricky if there were several bids between 2 players... which we'll figure out how this goes, but maybe it won't even happen this time.)
For example: ethereal daemon sold for 150 million. If you want to buy it for 165 million, send a ticket. If another person also wants to offer 165 but sends their ticket after you, they would have to then outbid you with 181,5 million.
(we're going to avoid rounding since there's a whole big algorithm to that, so you can even bid 181.501.372 gp if you want).
I expect there to be some minor issues and inconveniences, if that happens we'll just try to figure it out as we go along.
Also, if this system would stick in the long term, I expect eventually the high-roller players might agree to not compete too much, to get cheaper items and also two of them. And it's nice that some people could trust each other so much
However, my duty is to sell stuff for as much gold as possible, so I'll have to figure out ways to prevent any price-fixing. One way perhaps would be to select a random 50% of the items that could be re-auctioned, and with that you won't really know for sure whether an item will be sold as duplicate. But again, this is just an experiment... as is everything in games
So we'll see how it goes.
