Auction Sniping (in General)

I had an open bid for a lesser ToA with my tourney char and thrak bid three times within the last 20 seconds or so to snipe the auction out from under me.

I would like to propose a change to the auction system. Basically you are limited on how many times you can bid in a given amount of time. I think this would be especially effective in the last few minutes of the auction. Either that, or have tourney only auctions, because I am never going to be able to compete with regular chars in the auction system if they are allowed to do as thrak did just now.

# $63,001 bid by Thraktizzo (Scout) on 12:59 AM EDT
# $60,001 (max bid: 60,001) bid by Glory (t2(rtd2)) -- tournament 2 on 12:48 AM EDT (autobid)
# $55,000 bid by Thraktizzo (Scout) on 12:58 AM EDT
# $45,000 bid by Thraktizzo (Scout) on 12:58 AM EDT

seriously this happens in almost all auction systems -.-

"Either that, or have tourney only auctions"

not interested

"because I am never going to be able to compete with regular chars in the auction system if they are allowed to do as thrak did just now"

you're not supposed to :)

seriously jonathan, you do not see abuse in what just happened?

Glory its been discussed already in another thread. If you're fully reliant on an item in auctions then that is your fault, and no one else's.

"you do not see abuse in what just happened?"

nope

it's silly to place 3 bids instead of a larger max bid, but not abusive