> One option that might be more practical would be to enable users to buy out the auction with a limit order. Google built this, but users turned out not to be

> One option that might be more practical would be to enable users to buy out the auction with a limit order. Google built this, but users turned out not to be interested in it and they discontinued it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor (Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)