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Issue with a YCH Auction
8 years ago
Just recently, I lost out on an ych auction. It was a two character ych which a friend of mine and I were bidding on. I was bidding on slot #2, and my friend on slot #1. So naturally I submit my comment appropriately as "SB" on slot #2.
Things got interesting when I got outbid on slot #2, but the person who outbid me put in the wrong amount. The starting bid was $40, but the person bid $35 on the comment below mine. This person tried to snipe my bid within the last hour of the auction with an invalid amount.
This same person decided to try to bid snipe my friend on slot #1, and the rules stated that there would be a 15 minute extension when this occurs within the last 15 minutes of the auction. Several bids occur between my friend and the other person, but soon it goes above the amount he's willing to spend. My friend lets me know he's backing out, and I decide to try to pick up slot #1. The auction ends with me having the highest bid on Slot #1, and the person's invalid bid on Slot #2.
I had thought I won both slots. However, the artist makes the mistake thinking the other's person bid on slot #2 was legitimate, when it was invalid and below the threshold of the starting bid that I had made. Payment was sent to the artist from this other person, and it wasn't until I let the artist know about the bid being invalid, that the artist realized what happened.
So the artist gave a decision to the other person. Make up the difference of $10 (which would have been the appropriate bid) and keep slot #2 or get refunded the amount and forfeit slot #2. The person decides the former.
Now I am left with slot #1. The issue is that I only wanted slot #1 because I had slot #2. I let the artist know this and wished to retract my bid on slot #1, which meant this other person won both slots.
I am bitter about this, because the mistakes on other people's part have left me with a missed opportunity for the ych through no fault of my own. I can't help but to see the artist decision to allow the other person to make up the difference and keep the slot as being wrong, as I was left with no opportunity to have increased my bid on that slot, which I would have if given the choice.
Yeah, I'm annoyed and wanting to vent a bit, but I'd like to hear from you on what I could have done to make things different.
Things got interesting when I got outbid on slot #2, but the person who outbid me put in the wrong amount. The starting bid was $40, but the person bid $35 on the comment below mine. This person tried to snipe my bid within the last hour of the auction with an invalid amount.
This same person decided to try to bid snipe my friend on slot #1, and the rules stated that there would be a 15 minute extension when this occurs within the last 15 minutes of the auction. Several bids occur between my friend and the other person, but soon it goes above the amount he's willing to spend. My friend lets me know he's backing out, and I decide to try to pick up slot #1. The auction ends with me having the highest bid on Slot #1, and the person's invalid bid on Slot #2.
I had thought I won both slots. However, the artist makes the mistake thinking the other's person bid on slot #2 was legitimate, when it was invalid and below the threshold of the starting bid that I had made. Payment was sent to the artist from this other person, and it wasn't until I let the artist know about the bid being invalid, that the artist realized what happened.
So the artist gave a decision to the other person. Make up the difference of $10 (which would have been the appropriate bid) and keep slot #2 or get refunded the amount and forfeit slot #2. The person decides the former.
Now I am left with slot #1. The issue is that I only wanted slot #1 because I had slot #2. I let the artist know this and wished to retract my bid on slot #1, which meant this other person won both slots.
I am bitter about this, because the mistakes on other people's part have left me with a missed opportunity for the ych through no fault of my own. I can't help but to see the artist decision to allow the other person to make up the difference and keep the slot as being wrong, as I was left with no opportunity to have increased my bid on that slot, which I would have if given the choice.
Yeah, I'm annoyed and wanting to vent a bit, but I'd like to hear from you on what I could have done to make things different.
That said, you could've done that before. Just acted like the one who bid too low actually bid a correct amount, and go one step above that. That could've been explained to the artist later too...
Thing is, that I'll be assuming that the person had wanted to go higher other than their initial bid, and I don't like to assume these things in a competitive sphere where I'm having to give more of my money on a mistake someone else made. If the individual didn't attempt to bid snipe me, things would have been different with the opportunity to raise a remark that their bid was invalid, but by then, the artist had already received payment from the person.
I was surprised how the transaction was made so swiftly, and it did raise a flag for me on whether the person was doing this as gamble to see if they can get the slot for a lower amount. If they get called out on it, then they just bid normally. I find it very difficult that both the person and the artist didn't see that the amount was invalid. The chances of that to me seems remarkably low, but then again I may give people too much credit in this regard. xD
Lastly, the artist made the deal already with the person before I had come up with a more amicable proposal. It would be worse for the artist to go back on their word and suddenly have two individuals not liking them rather than just one. The time window and the confusion this entire auction created didn't offer much opportunity for me to shift things towards a more favorable result for me.