The increase bid auction thingy option.

[Mu6o]

http://steamcommunity.com/auction/item/1493-Still-Life-Collection
Bid more than this guy... YOU CAN'T BECAUSE IT's a bot and it's not the first one... WTF is Steam doing?

edit: misunderstanding that I want to know

[Findanniin]

Bid more than... who?
That's an auction page which, at a glance, looks to be won by different people each time?

[Mu6o]

ZueX currently has the highest bid: 1,600
Bid for 1601 he bids in the same second to 1700, bid to 1701 he bids at 1800 at the same second. I tried from 1000 to 1600 then removed my bid.

[RZW]

His maximum bid is higher than what your bidding, so it automatically goes up when you bid to compensate for that.

It's not bots, that's just how online auctions work... You have to outbid the max bid, not the current bid. He might have put 100,000 gems as his max bid for all you know (but probably not).

[Findanniin]

No... Metal is quite right.
You set a max bid. If you bid 1601, his will automatically increase to 1700.
Forgive me the imminent all-caps:

STEAM TELLS YOU THIS WHEN YOU PLACE A BID.

Is it possible to overbid someone by 1?
Of course...
Long as they're at their max bid.

edit: Ah, you removed your post calling bullcrap on the one above. Well done.

[Mu6o]

Okay I don't get the system. How do you do that and why don't I have options to do so?

[flamar]

Metal Scourge is right, he has put a max on how much he want's to use, just bid the max you want and see if you win.

[Mu6o]

Publicado originalmente por Findanniin:

edit: Ah, you removed your post calling bullcrap on the one above. Well done.

I skipped some text I didn't see but still don't get the system, why the hell, how the hell can you do that if you don't have options?

[Findanniin]

You do have the option to. Steam won't bid more than you need to beat the maximum, keeping the rest in reserve.
Go ahead, try it out :)

[Mu6o]

I have tried it on other items there it worked like a flaw.. I had no worries or something, but it bugs me how it increases just like that..
Like if I give 100000 gems for something and someone bids 500 it will take 600, is that what you are telling me?

[Findanniin]

Exactly, right. It won't use the full 100000, unless someone's actively bidding that high.

Edit: .. or trolling you to get you to spend more gems. That... by the by, may or may not be a valid strategy to get people to waste gems if you're camping the same game and see the same names competing for top bid. *whistles nonchalantly*

[Sparse Dunes]

Publicado originalmente por Findanniin:

Edit: .. or trolling you to get you to spend more gems. That... by the by, may or may not be a valid strategy to get people to waste gems if you're camping the same game and see the same names competing for top bid. *whistles nonchalantly*

Yup, I for one did this on the first day with a game called Fading Hearts.
Started off at like maybe 9k I bidded up to 26k and someone outbidded me, then I bailed. Course it was a steady stream. Like maybe first off 12k then, 18k, 20k so on and so forth. Can't just throw 26k in right off the bat, although maybe that would've made the winner have to pay more...damn.


Back on topic: There isn't really anyway of know the max bid If I remember correctly(3 days is such a long time). Just keep guessing or put how much you're willing to bid. See what place you are in if you didn't beat the guy and go from there.

[僕の名前 (仮)]

I wish you weren't allowed to outbid by 1 gem. Real world auctions have a bid threshold (in % of base price) So you can't for example outbid yacht by 1cent in the last second.

One trade site I know have auctions and allows to set your own threshold (so someone outbidding by 1 scrap can't do that) I wish it was forced though, not optional.