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[Manbat]

Hello @Dragontalon

Accepting bids that wish to stay anonymous goes against the Auction Rules

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Auction Rules
2. All bids must be acknowledged, and all current/best offers must be publicly announced with the bidder's username and bid amount.

- In-game: This applies to every trade post related to the auction. Evidence of all bids received must be made and kept, to be made available upon Staff request. Timestamps are preferred.

- Forum: This applies to every in-game bid received, and must be acknowledged in the auction thread with a screenshot. Timestamps are preferred.

› This does not apply to bids received on the forum.

› Bids made on Discord are not valid or accepted.

- Accepting known false bids (from alternative account, friend, guildmate, etc) is prohibited.

As stated in the above rule - "all current/best offers must be publicly announced with the bidder's username and bid amount."

This can be considered inflating your auction as there is no way to tell if the bid is real or fake.

It is both the responsibilty of the auctioneer and bidder to understand this auction rule when participating in an auction.

Also, you uploaded the evidence of the winning bid 5 minutes after the auction was scheduled to end.

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Auction Rules
9. End point is final and must be honoured.

- In-game: End points cannot be extended for any reason, and must be accurate to the second that the auction is set to end. It is recommended to use timestamps to manage your auction correctly.

› e.g. If the auction ends at 15:00:00, bids are valid until 14:59:59 and no later.

- Forum: If a bid is received in the final 15 minutes of the auction, the end point will be delayed by 15 minutes from that bid, and will be delayed by 15 minutes for each new bid thereafter, until the current offer has been held for a full 15 minutes. Must be accurate to the minute that the auction is set to end.

› e.g. If the auction ends at 15:00, it will end at 15:00:00. If a late bid is received in the final 15 minutes, at 14:46, the auction will end at 15:01. If another user bids at 15:00, the auction will be extended again, and will end at 15:15, this will be repeated until the current offer has been held for a full 15 minutes.

As it is both impossible to reverse the outcome and to know who the runners-up bid is, you have been punished for a mishandled auction.

Please read the Auction Rules to avoid further punishment in the future.

Manbat.
 

Edited August 27, 2022 by Manbat