There's something I really, really, really don't understand

Here's the story.

I accidentally bidded on a 400k amulet for 800k which is double the last bid price (400k), so I thought that is going to burn and I'm losing 400k
Then, to my surprise, I received a refund of 400k because the last bid didn't move much.

But then my bro bidded on a 50k bracer for 200k. He should have received 150k aprox. as a refund, yet in the end the auction house showed up "200k-bid". In short, he paid the ceiling price of the bid.

Can somebody explain to me what is going on? Why I get a refund, but he didn't? Did they change something? Bugfix? Bugged?

This post has been edited by Sophiera: Jul 12 2012, 05:44 AM

as for your case, That's how suppose Auction house is function.

As for your bro case, when he bid 200k on a 50k item, maybe by the end of Auction, some other player might bid the item maybe near 200k. Thats why end result the item is costing 200k instead of 50k.

google proxy bidding.

Proxy bidding.

How it works is, you place your highest bid for an item you want. Lets say the current bid is 100k, but you think the item is worth 500k. You put in 500k, but the next bid would only be 110k. If no one bids on the item, you'll get the item for 110k and get 390k refunded. If lets say someone bids on the item, his bid will get rejected until he bids more than 500k.

In your brother's case, someone probably bid on the item right up to the 200k mark, but did not beat your brother's bid. Hence the ceiling price.

yea easy to understand

Bot bidding...

You place your MAX BID that you're willing to pay, and by the time the auction ends and the "Current Bid" is lower than your MAX BID and you're the Winner, you will get the Item + REFUNDED the balance.

Therefore, you just place the maximum you're willing to pay, AND GO TO SLEEP !! You don't need to camp at the AH for the last few minutes to snipe a winning auction. If you lost the auction, why bother since you not willing to pay more than you initially bidded. Get the point yet ?

As for your brother's case, the "Current Bid" matches his "Max Bid" therefore there is no refund and he win by the "Current Bid" amount.

I bid for a bow that I'm willing to pay maximum 1m yesterday, but the "Current Bid" stopped at 525k right after I place the 1mil amount. After the auction timer ends, nobody bids higher 1m, therefore the Current Bid did not move and I am the winner, with the item and refunded 475k.

This post has been edited by tanghm: Jul 12 2012, 10:37 AM

Because last seconds bidding is syok Undercut someone in the last second is.... priceless

Let say the timer <1m and the Current Bid is 500k (But I placed my MAX BID as 10mil). How are you going to undercut my 10m ?? Unless you're willing to outbid my 10m which is not revealed to you !!

someone js put a bid value slightly under your brother's max bid price during the last second...
hence, ur bro's bid is taken as last value...so nth to refund...

that only works if that person only bid the +10%. If that person had put a +9000% bid, all your last minute bid would do is to make him pay more for the item, that's all

Given my example above, I don't see it possible for you (yuhhaur) to snipe my 10m MAX BID when the Current Bid stays at 500k with <1m timer left.

You go and click Bid and entered 550k, which you will end up as NOT WINNING, then you try again this time put 605k 10% more, NOT WINNING again. You get frustrated as it is seconds left, you then maybe whack 2m ? But you still don't win my 10m bid which is hidden !!

This post has been edited by tanghm: Jul 12 2012, 10:47 AM

That is also one of the reason.

*evil *

Correct, but he is willing to pay that amount remember ?

Correct also, but that makes me happier Nothing to do with him.

As I said, syok sendiri ma

This post has been edited by yuhhaur: Jul 12 2012, 10:51 AM

Bad monk.. very bad monk

Btw, I accidentally found a way to cancel my auction bid last week
Wonder if they fixed that already. There is a note about AH fix in latest patch.

sorry a bit blur after so much read, ask for example 1 of the bid currently is 1m bidprice, i put in 10m , in all the middle process it still show 1m as the bid right? and ppl try to bid with 2m 3m and 5m. at the end what i get is refund 9m or 5m????

Good Monk, come lets share it..

this proxy bidding for both with/without buyout?

lol