You know, when I first started doing the auction, I would bid early and get outbid in the closing seconds.  It didn't take me 10 days to figure out that what I was doing wasn't working and that other people weren't going to change the way they do things to make it easy for me. 

Barre put that item up for sale immediately after I mentioned what my quest was.  According to the rules of the clique over at the BF fourms, that was MY item because MY friend listed it for ME to get.  But I bet I'm being badmouthed in pm's for outbidding somebody.  I really need to stay away from there. 

I've been neglecting Midnight Castle and my airship inventory is getting low.  I'll put some stuff up for auction for 12 hours right before I go to bed, but all I'm going to do tomorrow is check in to hand out keys.

I don't think there was a bidding war.  Some newbie might have just bid what you first listed it for, but I think the next bid was by somebody who knew it was now difficult to get and that person hoped that 5,000 would be enough, that other people would see the others that still had low bids and want them instead.  I bid 6000 in the closing seconds hoping anybody else waiting until right before the bell would bid less.  And I guessed right.

Put it back out for auction at 5000, and somebody immediately bid 8000, and won it for that price because the newbies or bargain hunters were still hoping to get a steal of a deal.  So I made money on it.

I wanted to just play MC today, but the external drive where I have all my gifting spreadsheets and other notes is acting up, so I have to wait until DH copies the data to a new drive.  Guess I'll go play ping pong keys.

barre -- Off to list one right now.

The BFG forums have a few posts saying the Auctions are wonky -- People list things but they never get the ntoice that they are returned and the items aren't in inventory (way after expiration).  Others get notices that they sold but the coins never show up.  Yet others are saying that they get notices that they successfully bid on items (one person 6) but they eithetr don't do auctions or never bid on whatever they got.

And NIGHTSTALKER seems to be up to his old tricks again.  He has a ton of bids on Mount Rushmore and a number that he has listed for a fairly high price (considering what the item is).

Last edited by lilyr (June 29, 2014 11:06 am)

I asked Dirk, and he said Shot of India usually sells for 10,000.  It does take 8 envelpes to get and people don't play Phil's mini games as often as they play the ones in Dinhammer, which give out more coins, so that makes them more rare.

lilyr wrote:

I just got my stamp.  And Dirk bought my Shot of India -- for a mere 2606! 

Dirk is like me and the other auction "vultures".  If there's a god deal out there, we WILL try to win it.  I'm sure the newbies passed it up because they thought you were asking too much.

I think nightstalker is the one who bought my Shot of India at buyout for 30,000.  Which is just plain wierd because he/she is selling them for about 5000 less.

I have never understood why somebody would outbid me at the last second only to immediately relist that item with a starting bid of 1 coin.  I usually wind up winning that item 24 hours later for a heck of a lot less than I would have paid if I had won it the day before.