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Erm ,, I may be a bit slow here but I placed a fairly high bid in a domain auction - my maximum bid - there were no other bidders and you went ahead and charged me my maximum bid.

No other online auctions work like that - what are you thinking?

In fact that is NOT an auction system - that is a make offer system ...

Please explain.

In fact there is a basic expectation that the system will work in this way. This is the way ebay works and it is industry standard.

I just got beat by a penny on a domain because I was not "snipping" the account, watching it go by in the last seconds to ensure that someone did not outbid me moments before the auction closed.

Without the "automatically raise my bid to" feature, you have to be a slave to the time and date when your auction ends, rather than simply putting in how much you would be comfortable paying and knowing that the system will "speak up for you" up to that amount.

This is a problem in both directions. Those like the original poster who assumed it was a modern auction system and those like me who cannot be a slave to watching an auction.

-FT

The problem is "the users don´t read".

And they mistakenly think they have the right to feel ripped off.

So you better read instead of throwing acusations.

Why does Dynadot auction system must be equal to other auction systems?

Just because you hate to read?

Sorry, you better read.

@ aiofe

Doing just that, right now.

What they're doing isn't right and they're not warning anyone of these problems. Their inaction is allowing it to continue and they're profiting from it.


[This post has been edited by user_1186 on Sep 30, 2008 5:31am.]

Erm ,, I may be a bit slow here but I placed a fairly high bid in a domain auction - my maximum bid - there were no other bidders and you went ahead and charged me my maximum bid.

No other online auctions work like that - what are you thinking?

In fact that is NOT an auction system - that is a make offer system ...

Please explain.

So, let's just be clear here .. You placed a bid you would have been happy placing .. if there were other bids?
But .. now unhappy because no one else placed a bid?

Moral of the story .. Don't put a bid in if you feel this way.

@ user_1186 ...

A simple solution right?
Don't like it? Then take you're business elswhere

Translation: Their making too much money off of this 'feature' to change it. It's likely everyone here who has bid on domains has made this mistake. So you you take the number of bidding customers x mistake made once = profit.

Our auction system isn't a proxy bidding system.  The amount you bid is the amount you pay.  

Proxy bidding is on our feature request list, but I don't know when or if it will be added.