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So after i've been bidding in a couple auctions, i've noticed a trend of sorts.
Every time i try to bid on items which end auction in roughly two days or less, i instantly get outbid by another user by just a dollar more.
This would be fine if it took, say, a few seconds, but each and every time it takes less then a single second for me to be outbid.
Is this caused by a script that auto-bids for you to a certain limit, or do people just have no life?
The bid shown on any item is $1 higher than the second highest bid. If someone bids 10b on an item, but the second highest bidder is only 30m, then it will go at 30,000,001. Someone is not live bidding on it $1 higher than you, you are just not bidding high enough to actually be the highest bidder.
How would i find out the actual highest bid then?
You’ll just have to keep bidding money. It’s the same on eBay.
Just have a price in mind on what it is worth, and if it’s beyond your desired price, then you’ll stop.
I recently had someone send me hate mail over this because they did not understand how the auction house works, so you aren't alone here.
Lets say we both want that delicious Red Arma and I decide its worth like $1B, so I put $1B down.
Lets pretend the current bid is $10,000,000, that will go to $10,000,001 (so I beat the original bid by the absolute minimum required).
You decide it is worth $500m, and put that down. You dont actually beat my original $1B bid, but the system increases the amount Ill have to pay by what you bid + $1, ie. $501,000,001
Basically with my $1B bid I'm saying "I want to beat the current bid (which was $10m), and am willing to go to $1B"
So is the script doing "work" because there is amount od just 1$ but cant beat that whatever I put there show bid from same person with 1$ more than me?
There’s no script- that’s just how the auction house mechanics are. See Nexus post above yours….
DM me if you need it explained any simpler - I have put the main point you haven't understood in bold, but basically:
For every item in the auction house the game has a "current highest bid" which is visible to everyone, and a "current highest bidder has said they would pay up to a value of Y" which is hidden. If nobody has made a bid on that item it is the same as the listing price.
When you are making a bid on something, you are not saying "I will raise that price to my new bid" you are saying "I will pay up to my new bid for that item, but get me the cheapest price up to that. Here is the money up front to cover it and if there is any change left give it back at the end of the auction"
The game automatically checks that hidden "current highest bidder would pay up to Y" and compares your bid to it.
Is your bid higher than the hidden bid?
No?
OK, they had already said they would pay more, your highest bid wasn't enough but the new "cheapest price" that they can get it for is $1 higher than yours, so they REMAIN the highest bidder, but they now have to pay $1 higher than you were willing to pay.
It now shows that new price as the "current bid", and still has their hidden "but they would pay up to this" behind the scenes.
Yes?
Congratulations, you were willing to pay more than them - the new highest bid will be $1 higher than whatever their hidden maximum would be.
You are now the highest bidder, and that hidden value is whatever you had said you would pay up to.
The auction house message the previous highest bidder with a "sorry, but TakedaVigor was willing to pay more, here is a refund of the money you left with us to bid on your behalf"
If you are STILL the highest bidder at the end of the auction, and it ended up selling for less than you had said you would be willing to pay, you get given the item AND your surplus bid money.