Time remaining: 1 Min

[Long Niar™]

Yet here I am 15 minutes later battling the same two bozos in the auction house for car ownership.

???

[Wyntflex]

That's because placing a bid resets the timer for another minute... As long as people keep placing bids during that 1 minute time frame the timer keeps resetting to 1 minute. When people stop bidding for 1 minute that's when the auction ends and the highest bid wins...

Try placing multiple bids on the same car, and go for stock cars, people usually go for the tuned cars because then they don't have to pay for upgrades. Sometimes I have 5-10 bids on a car that I want and usually win at least one, and if I win more than one then I just put it back up on auction and keep one.

Edit: I know the auction house is annyoing, but it's well worth it, especially if you want rare or more expensive cars. You can save and make a lot on the auction house if you get the hang of it.

[Energyturtle85]

Best advice is to just save up enough CR so you can just do the buyout.

[Wyntflex]

Originally posted by Energy Turtle:

Best advice is to just save up enough CR so you can just do the buyout.

A lot of cars have higher buyout than buying the cars on the autoshow... That's how people lose money. They assume cars are always cheaper on the auction house when in fact that's not entirely true.

The 2016 Audi R8 V10 Plus is 240K on the autoshow, meanwhile the buyout in the auction house is around 400-500K. So you are paying almost double if you buyout.
The most absurd case of this is the 2008 BMW M3 which costs 48K at the autoshow and has a buyout of 12 Million. There was also the Lynk & Co 03+ which costs 40K at the autoshow and had a 4,5M buyout during the Lunar event and people were selling it nonstop and people bought it cause they thought it's a rare car. I sold 10 of them for 4M each during the event. I put them up for like 50K and several people bought it out for 4-4,5M.

But if a car is cheaper with buyout at the auction house than in the autoshow and there's high demand for it then yeah buyout is worth it.

[the bat kite]

Originally posted by Energy Turtle:

Best advice is to just save up enough CR so you can just do the buyout.

:D !!!

[Long Niar™]

O_O

[Long Niar™]

No but seriously... 1 minute should mean 1 minute. Not "til the other dude gives up or buys it out".

[Coffee]

I have to agree it should be like an Ebay auction. The highest bid when the time runs out is the winner. The current system is a joke imo.

[Simeta]

It's like that to give everyone a chance, or you will get people / bots sniping last minute for anything rare then relist them at higher price to control the market.

If you want something badly then just buy out.

[Long Niar™]

Right.

[pepitos]

Originally posted by Simeta:

It's like that to give everyone a chance, or you will get people / bots sniping last minute for anything rare then relist them at higher price to control the market.

If you want something badly then just buy out.

ban the bots and the people linked to them. right now it's just give the richest a chance, you might as well just buy it for full price it's useless to try and actually auction it; and no i'm not paying 16 millions for that lucid car so i just won't get it

[harbinger]

Yes, this is stupid. Time remaining 1 minute for 15 minutes.

Also, I tried to get a Yaris GR for like 10 times by just buying it out for the full price, a ridicolous 20 million CR, and I still wasn't able because someone else was 1 millisecond faster than me. WTF is this sh*t?

Ridiculously annoying, unfinished and often stupid game. What "saves" this game is the car mechanics/physics/gameplay.

[kireta]

Originally posted by pepitos:

right now it's just give the richest a chance

Well, yes. That's very purpose of having an auction. So item goes to whoever is willing to pay the most.

[pepitos]

Originally posted by kireta:

Originally posted by pepitos:

right now it's just give the richest a chance

Well, yes. That's very purpose of having an auction. So item goes to whoever is willing to pay the most.

except it's forza horizon you sand-filled head, not real life
plus those people can just buy it outright after spending 10 minutes trying to get it normally; very well thought out. the problem of bots has just been replaced by the problem of the auctions being completely useless except if you have no life and are going to camp it for 30 minutes

[kireta]

I don't exactly follow your line of thought. You want auctions where you can bid low, and no one else can outbid you?
Bidding keeps going until everyone else drops out, or someone loses patience and pays full price. Former happens when there's plenty of supply and low demand, latter when things are other way around.

You're not buying from game, but from other players, and they want to get as much CR out of the deal as possible. If you try to lowball someone on hot item, you'll only waste time, yes.

[pepitos]

Originally posted by kireta:

I don't exactly follow your line of thought. You want auctions where you can bid low, and no one else can outbid you?
Bidding keeps going until everyone else drops out, or someone loses patience and pays full price. Former happens when there's plenty of supply and low demand, latter when things are other way around.

You're not buying from game, but from other players, and they want to get as much CR out of the deal as possible. If you try to lowball someone on hot item, you'll only waste time, yes.

Ah yes because before this change nobody was able to outbid you, and totally relates to the rest of what you said.
You can keep the yapping to yourself as because it is unrelated and irrelevant, nobody cares.
The place you're looking for if you think that interpreting what someone else said however you want and yapping vaguely related stuff is a "scathing takedown" is reddit. This is not reddit. Go away.