Although @n0m1n4l 's bid was not in a increment of $5 (per auction rules)...not sure how that should be handled...obviously the intent was there
I’m on my phone right now and the $1s are easy enough to see but I’ll have to go through the times on my laptop to see what increments it goes down to. You guys can see it better than me right now.
From what I see..
n0m1n4l's bid at 9:11 for $456 is legit and wins the auction.
SalesGuru's bid at 9:17 for $460 is a minute late and a dollar short.
I think either an explicit disclaimer such as this, or let bids like this occur. IMO it was excellent gamesmanship for end of auction chaos. I personally like the strategy since it seems legal within the rules set.Easily solved. Auction bid and bid increment rule can be changed to "All bids must be clear multiples of $N" to prevent fractionalization (is that a word?) of bids. Maybe add another statement, "All bids outside of these multiples shall be rounded down to the nearest recognized bid increment, or considered void."
I think either an explicit disclaimer such as this, or let bids like this occur. IMO it was excellent gamesmanship for end of auction chaos. I personally like the strategy since it seems legal within the rules set.
"Allowed" is much more accurate than legal. I concur with that clarification as well. . Definitely not talking about law here! Also there was a 426 bid earlier that seems to be universally accepted, so......there's that.....It was, in fact, allowed by the posted guidelines (I hesitate to use the term "legal" because this isn't a matter of law).
Show off... if it isn't available in box form, then it's money that's going towards chips.Have we hijacked this thread enough, yet? I mean, we could go on to a discourse of the decline of European wines on the casual North American dinner table market with the general exception of Spanish Garnacha / Tempranillo, or perhaps some French Cotes du Rhone, and Italian Chianti Classico, seeming that there's abundant competition from Australia/New Zealand and Chile/Argentina for the working man's/woman's money....
Show off... if it isn't available in box form, then it's money that's going towards chips.
I wish there was boxed Bourbon so I could spend more money on chips!!!