Auction Suggestion: Let the seller be able to pick the buyer.

I'd like to make another suggestion due to the rise of many winners of my trades not willing to pay due to their ignorance and/or laziness. I used to use a similar auction place for d2, I had over 200 positive feedback, never did I have to deal with these issues. Never had to give a neutral nor a negative feedback. I have recently just the past month given quite a few due to these buyers who have no idea what they are doing.

Just one today, someone bid just a few hours before closing to win now does not even remember how much he paid nor is unsure what he bid on. Then I explained to him, he starts laughing saying he doesn't remember bidding on such an item.

Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against anyone starting (I had to start somewhere), but for certain items, I'd prefer CHOOSING a winner even if the value was lower or atleast being able to contact the followup bidders instead of having to repost and starting over again. I've seen many sellers complain about this. I don't see much purpose to the feedback system if you cant pick your sellers. What would be the point? "Oh no, someone with -100 feedback just won my auction, I can't do anything about it." When something goes wrong, it seems only the seller gets penalized because he/she loses the time spent on the auction, has to start over and potentially get a bogus negative feedback. What about the buyer? Now I haven't seen someone with decent feedback cause problems, so I assume it is those who have 0. In my case, it is anyway. All they can do is create a new account and begin anew.

So in summary, my suggestion:

Have the seller be able to pick the winner.Or atleast see who has bid and how much and being able to contact them. But the first suggestion is definitely what I'd prefer.


Thank you.


edit: I was reading through a few of these threads. For example, this one: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...d.php?t=120224

How exactly will negative feedback hurt them? Well that thread has answered me in one way, it hurts them if they are trying to sale. However, this still doesnt answer me how to deal with them if they buy.

Interesting... give the seller the ability to delete a user's bid. Hmm hmmm hmmm. I do believe Ebay has this as well. Let me look into that and get back with you Kazamafury.

Thank you for such a quick reply!

It wouldn't necessarily require the seller to delete a user's bid but just being able to choose any one of them. Since deleting a bid might cause newer bidders to not realize what had happened.

This is the way I see it. This probably ressembles to trading pages but this is only gold related.

~Auction has ended for x item~
Please choose the winner.

[ ]BidderA(10) - 200
[ ]BidderB(2) - 500
[x]BidderC(8) - 800
[ ]BidderD(-5) - 1000

[OK][Cancel]

Check the box of BidderC, click on OK, then confirm. Voila, then e-mails get sent to both parties. Seller can have a preference to always have it pick the highest bidder in the auction if the sellers don't mind feedback.

However, this might cause some rework in the code and design of the auction, so I don't expect it to look exactly like that. It's too late in the day, I am just speaking my mind now. =)

Kazama, that would defeat the purpose of an auction system. Buyer's bid against one another to get the top bid, are notified if they've been outbidded, etc. What you are asking just wouldn't be feasible in terms of an auction system. I can understand a seller being able to delete bids from a potential buyer that has too many negative feedbacks for their liking, that are bogus bids, and more. But to pick and choose would not be fair to a buyer and would not make it an auction system.

I see, thank you for the clarification. I also look foward to the coming updates that you've mentionned in the auction sticky thread.

perhaps allow you to prevent people with x negative feedback to bid?

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