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Nice closing bid on time-to-change! Hopefully, the sale goes through.

Can someone often bidding on UKBO or Rob himself elaborate on the bidding logic, I always struggle to understand what the heck is happening with the bids over there.

For instance:
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How bidder 'james' could have lodged 18501 bid after 18500 bid? Without the increment? The increment above 10k is £500 and his bid is not labelled "Automatic".
His subsequent bids w/o increment 20001,22001 make sense, but no the 18501 one.

Then, when 'seodomains' places a bid of 11900 at 19:27:59, nothing happens after.
Only at 19:29:12 an "Automatic" bid of 15000 by 'jacknjill' appears. If this bidder's proxy bid was higher than 'seodomains' bid, shouldn't his incremental bid been placed immediately after, at 19:27:59?
I assume what's happening is that jacknjill's proxy bid was lower than seodomains' bid and only at 19:29:12 the bidder entered a bid of a higher value. It overbid the maximum bid of seodomains and was recorded as 15000 (Automatic). Altough it's not clear why it is shown as "Automatic", when the bidder was physically present and his newly entered bid became the lead.

And a culmination - at 19:31:12 'jacknjill' is the highest bidder and on the course to win the auction.
At 19:47:01 a bid by 'james' comes without the increment and is not labelled as a proxy/automatic bid.

Perhaps someone more frequent at UKBO has mastered this logic by now, but this bidding log confuses the hell out of me =)
 
Yeah I have trouble displaying things. In actual fact there are many more intermediate steps which I don't display because they are all 'automatic'. There are actually 116 log entries for these bids. I'm open to an explanation of the correct way :)

Actually I'm editing this out because reading it back makes no sense to me. I'll try to formulate an exact breakdown but I think my problem is reporting the manual entry bids at automatic times. I have tried to display various ways and it still always makes me confused. This is why I log everything. Also I don't think it helps that the auction end time is put over the last bid which actually happened a while before.

Ok so this is how it ended (I'm ignoring nobodysss who had the high proxy bid of £9350 for most of the day which got slowly bid up).
19:26:50 jacknjill has high bid of 9351 with a max of 15000 (auction at 9351)
19:27:59 seodomains makes max bid of 11900 which is proxyoutbid by jacknjill at 11901 (auction at 11901)
What should be showing (is in logs but not in display algorithm) is jacknjill winning the auction at this point with 11901 until next
19:29:12 james makes max bid of 17770 which means he outbids jacknjill at 15001 (auction at 15001)
What should be showing (is in logs but not in display algorithm) is james winning the auction at this point with 15001 until next
19:29:50 jacknjill makes max bid of 18500 which means he outbids james at 17771 (auction at 17771)
What should be showing (is in logs but not in display algorithm) is jacknjill winning the auction at this point with 17771 until next
19:30:42 james makes max bid of 26500 which means he outbids jacknjill at 18501 (auction at 18501)
19:30:56 jacknjill makes bid of 20000 which is immediately proxyoutbid at 20001 by james (auction at 20001)
19:31:03 jacknjill makes bid of 22000 which is immediately proxyoutbid at 22001 by james (auction at 22001)
19:31:12 jacknjill makes bid of 25000 which is immediately proxyoutbid at 25001 by james (auction at 25001)
19:47:01 auction ends

I really do need to find a way to display all this properly.
 
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Ok figured it out now and updated the site. I was showing some of the irrelevant info from the logs and not showing others. It should be clearer now and I think that's how auction sites normally display the bidding history.
 
ukbackorder said:
Ok figured it out now and updated the site. I was showing some of the irrelevant info from the logs and not showing others. It should be clearer now and I think that's how auction sites normally display the bidding history.
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Much better now. Now makes sense.

Helping competitor to improve the service 😊
 
Yeah most people contact me via email rather than on a public forum ;) But thanks for giving me the impetus to fix the code - was only one line in the end finally solved my headache.
 
Great sale, reminds me of the sale of migraine.org.uk, just a lot better quality.

See if the gamble was worth it for the end user!
 
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Agreed-good to see the extension doing well
 
Any publicity is good publicity
 
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