Auction over bidding?

[Anaconda367]

I need to know, am i the only one that thinks this as it REALLY buggs the crud out of me!
just at the Auction house, and a Caster Rex come up. Starting price 47,162 fare for a 4 star, however the bots proceded to bid it all the way up to 121,662! thats almost 3 times the starting price and at that point even if its at 100% i would make next to NO MONEY off of it. the bots are crazy on raising the dang price and i dont beleave its worth even going to the Auction House anymore as id make more money off of a junk car!

what is yalls thought on the BS?

[SlayerOne]

The bots also bid against themselves quite often too. watch the names that come up. Still over-paying happens in real auctions. you have to bide your time and strike at the right time to get a bargain

[jeff1963]

Originally posted by SlayerOne:

The bots also bid against themselves quite often too. watch the names that come up. Still over-paying happens in real auctions. you have to bide your time and strike at the right time to get a bargain

Have you found method where there is actualy a right time to strike? It seems like there is no pattern that looks intelligent at all. Bidder X and Bidder X will bang away against each other and me for a while until the price is high, then at the end some other bidder that never showed interest will start bidding against me. Just seems very random.

[N̶a̶t̶e̶T̶r̶i̶c̶k̶]

I actually have found the few times I went into the auction house that they don't bid high enough. With some of the newer cars, I was make huge amounts of profit. I wouldn't even have to fix them. I would just buy a few, go back to my garage, and sell them. I made like $400,000 profit selling like 5 or 6 cars. Truthfully, I thought it was broken. Now on the older cars, you barely make any profit.

[Limmin]

Almost everything in this game...profit margins, prices for new and used cars, seems high. Best readjust your conversion rate for in-game money, such that say $3 in the game represents $1 in real life...? That solves most money-related gripes...

[SlayerOne]

Originally posted by jeff1963:

Have you found method where there is actualy a right time to strike?

wait until the other bidders drop off and wait until the bar goes above the text before hitting your first bid (just before the timer runs out). then you are only bidding against one opponent, and they will eventually drop out. Set yourself a bid limit and drop out when that is reached.n I've been able to buy cars at auction in the 60-80k range for 120k cars. i would have made money if i'd just on-sold it immediately.

[Slimypeople48]

This also bugs the crap out of me,
After the bidding starts just under your wallet/money a car value will pop up and I've yet to pay less then what a car is valued at, which is stupid because the starting bid for a car was 81k and it's value was 155k , If it never sells below it's value why start so low? I spent like 3 minutes bidding thinking I could get it with just a little profit but after it went past 165k I just gave up

[zeanomourph]

What really bugs me about the auctions is that if you DON'T bid, the bots give up after a couple of bids and the car will always sell for under half it's value.. but as soon as you start bidding everyone jumps back in and drives the price up just for the sake of it even though they were 10 milliseconds from letting it sell for 1/2 value when it was just bots bidding.

eg. a car is valued at 80k. bots bid it up to 38k and it's JUST about to sell, I put in a bid when the bar is just a few pixels from the top... suddenly everybody wants it again and they will drive the price right upp to 79k minimum before they stop bidding again. EVERY. DAMN. TIME.

[Claus]

Yeah i never go to auction houses for that reason, better to get them at barns if you want max profit, don't do junkyards cars, its more for people that have love for a car and want to restore it, you don't really make big profit on junkyard cars.

Sometimes you even lose money and always a lot of time.

I spent 8 hours reviving the dodge challenger yesterday first stock and then tore it apart again just to do custom parts.

[JimmerusMaximus]

What bugs the crap out of me is that once a bidder is about to settle on a price the rest of the bots let them have it. However, if you join in right then and there, all of a sudden its ALL of the bots taking their collective turns to out-bid me.

Example: Bidding on a car that has a 70k value but they stop just shy of 55k. But if I jump in, everyone bids until it's well past the profit margin.

[CaPtAiN HoWiE]

Originally posted by JimmerusMaximus:

What bugs the crap out of me is that once a bidder is about to settle on a price the rest of the bots let them have it. However, if you join in right then and there, all of a sudden its ALL of the bots taking their collective turns to out-bid me.

Example: Bidding on a car that has a 70k value but they stop just shy of 55k. But if I jump in, everyone bids until it's well past the profit margin.

This bugs me so much as well. It takes the realism out of the auction.

[jrpad1960]

The auction house is annoying to say the least. What I do is look at the car value and bid to that amount or maybe just a little over and then stop.The car will go to the next bid.I just keep in mind that nothing is a one off.Everything at the auction will come back around and sooner or later I'll get what I want at or below the value. The one thing that bugs me is the junkyard. When I started playing I made a ton of money flipping junkers. Some nights I'd buy and sell a dozen or more. But now everything I buy at the junk yard is worth less than I paid as soon as I take it to the garage.I think the devs restructured the pricing to discourage flipping.Could be wrong but that's how it seems.Doesn't matter, figured out how to make a killing every trip now so don't bother trying to flip anymore.