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That is fairly standard in an auction site to not see the underlying highest bid. But I can see how it is annoying that you have to pay first before you know w
by immad 17y ago
That is fairly standard in an auction site to not see the underlying highest bid.
But I can see how it is annoying that you have to pay first before you know whether you win an item. They should change that some how. Maybe auctioning is not the right format for a psuedo-virtual currency.
- jacquesm 17y agoIt may be standard, but it isn't proper to say 'high bid' when it isn't the high bid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_bid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_bid In a normal situation that would not matter because you would hold on to your money. In a pre-pay system this is total nonsense because you are paying first to pre-pay for your account (on the one item that you may be interested in) and afterwards you bid using your credits. Because of the two stage nature of the process there is now a ratchet, you've already paid your money, now you find that it was useless. Major design flaw. The bidding is normally decoupled from the actual payment, by moving the payment up-front the whole thing breaks.
- modsearch 17y agoI see what you mean here. In general our users are using credits they already own, but when you have to buy the majority of them it can get quite annoying as you said. For the time being, rest assured that you'll have no problem returning unused credits. Thanks again for the feedback. This is one of our first high-vale items and we are monitoring the dynamics of bidding and buying credits :)
- jacquesm 17y agoWhy not switch away from the pre-pay system ? Simply do a pre-auth on the card for the amount and charge when the buyer wins the auction ? Customer satisfaction guaranteed, 0 refunds and a lot less people like me that will get confused and / or pissed off.
- andreyf 17y agoMy guess would be fraud - they're looking to compete with e-bay by side-stepping their most resource-draining problem. Great idea, IMO.