I've always been pretty loosey goosey with auction protocol and such. And for now I will likely continue to be pretty casual until further notice. But as a general FYI to everyone who follows me and may be interested in the adoptables I make. It is perfectly alright by me for people to Autobuy adoptables before they're even posted if they are 100% certain they want them. For me I see no difference in someone seeing me work on it or seeing a WIP of it and buying it or someone just happening to be on FA around the time I post the auction and buying it. I just want to be clear in case people may have been holding back because they were waiting on an auction post. Now this does not include just bidding. Bidding on items won't happen until it is put up for auction, but you can AB at any time.