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AUCTION CHANGES

In future we hope to bring our clients continuous auctions.

Previously we had some problems at the end of the auctions. It seems that the server did not accomodate all bids placed during the last few minutes.

During a non-cyber auction, items are auctioned off individually. The item is not sold until every bidder has had sufficient time to place a bid. Only if no more bids are received at the end, the item gets sold.

We want to attempt to auction off our plants in much the same way. There is however one important issue that we have to consider: Because of different time zones in the world we are not all available to to take part in the auction at the same time of day. We have made an adaptation to ensure that everybody has sufficient time to place a bid regardless of their time zone.

NEW RULES FOR THE AUCTION

  1. We keep approximately ten plants at a time on the auction.
  2. Every plant has an initial bidding period of 5 days. If a plant has not had a bid for the last 24 hours (of the 5 days) it is sold. If it has received a bid during the last 24 hours of this period, the auction time for this item gets extended automatically for another 24 hours. If it gets bid on again during this extra period, the time gets extended again for 24 h etc until there have been no further bids for a 24 hour period. Then it is sold. Not all plants will then sell at the same time and there should be no bottleneck scrambling at the last minute.
  3. In the (somewhat unlikely) event that the bidding on an item carries on too long, we reserve the right to make a cut off time for the bidding.
  4. Soon after a plant is sold we replace it with a new one.
  5. Because of the high transport fee, the buyer does not need to take the purchased plants immediately. He can bid on new items until he has bought enough material to ship. As this carries some inherent risk for us, we shall require the address and credit card details of the bidder. After a period of two months the items will have to be paid for and shipped.
  6. Although payment by bank transfer (wire) is acceptable, it is not recommended. The banking fees of especially South African banks are extremely high and border on theft. Payment per credit card is recommended.