Auction Thread Disapeared

[oZoneRanger]

Yesterday in the evening Europe time, there was an Auction held for 1 hour for a Docking Module. My last Bid was 72 Million credits, when there was 1 minute left on the auction. The original poster had been updating the time and the standing winning bid while the auction was going on.

I checked back a couple of time last night and saw that other people had posted more bids, but after the time limit for the auction had passed, according to the time stamps on the individual bids. I check back today, and I cannot find the thread anywhere, not in my post history or in the Equipment Vendor section.

This seems rather STRANGE. Can anyone clear it up for me. If I had the winning bid with one minute to go in the bidding process, how does the thread just disapear from the Forums the next day?

One could suspect that, the winning bid was to low in the original posters mind and that he/she decided to sell the Item to one of the late biders directly. But that would require making the thread disappear......uhmmm....

Anyone have any input on this?

Thanks.

[Chuba]

owner of that thread probably deleted it.

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[Echo 7-7]

Equipment/ship sale threads are made invisible by moderators when the OP tags it as closed.

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[oZoneRanger]

Well then ....anyway I can see some proof that I did not win the auction? Maybe a good sugestion would be to leave action threads active for 48 hours so people can see the results. With one minute to bid ...I was the last bidder at 72 million...and the rest of the bids came in after the time given for the auction. If you make a rule...play by the rule....if bids came in after the time given for the auction....to bad. Im pretty sure mine was the last bid in the time specified....but...Now I have no way to prove it....

[SnakThree]

Auctions are unregulated here. For example how Narcotic trolled community with fake auctioning of mk1 ships. Many examples of auctions being full of bidders that raise it by 1 credit only to annoy the crap out of serious people. Then the private bids. Then the "Right to not sell if it doesn't reach desired price" is voiding auction meaning completely.

Auctions are crap here. That's why I started to offer proper price for my ships that I sell, and with time decrease it till I get serious buyer.

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[Echo 7-7]

Well then ....anyway I can see some proof that I did not win the auction? Maybe a good sugestion would be to leave action threads active for 48 hours so people can see the results. With one minute to bid ...I was the last bidder at 72 million...and the rest of the bids came in after the time given for the auction. If you make a rule...play by the rule....if bids came in after the time given for the auction....to bad. Im pretty sure mine was the last bid in the time specified....but...Now I have no way to prove it....

I checked the thread; had the auctioneer followed his own rules to the exact minute, you would have won the auction. However, it dragged on a little bit longer before he closed it, and thus another player won the auction with a bid of 90 million SC.

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[oZoneRanger]

Kay thanks echo....that is all I needed to know...cheers.