Mr. Chairman is becoming very harsh... (in General)

Come on!

I was bidding $7.25M on $8.25M Displacement Boots and Mr. Chairman overbid me!

Give us a break man!

there's still 12 minutes left to go on that auction if you really want them then you still have plenty of time to place another bid.

How about you give us a break from the whining and bid enough?
You're bidding below NW so expect there to be a good chance the valuation is at least NW.

With the current spike of price for DB, you should be thankful to get that DB at that price... I'm just guessing but I think Mr Chairman would bid up to 9 mil or so.

"You're bidding below NW so expect there to be a good chance the valuation is at least NW."

That statement makes absolutely no sense. That would mean that Mr.Chairman would bid on a pair of DB's worth $100M if the bid was $95M. Ridiculous.

An I did get the DB's, but even with the current price of base DB's (around $2.5M to $3.5M) I could have asked someone to forge a base pair of DB's at 70% and it would have cost me about the same. My max bid was calculated at about base auction price +60%. Apparently, that wasn't enough.

Anyways, I guess I am overreacting a bit, but I still had to bid an extra $400K over what Mr. Chairman bid to get the boots. I still think that is a bit steep.

I might seem a bit biased in this case since i am the seller, but good, i'm glad CB bid on my DB's and raised the price on them, i can see how you as a buyer don't like it but look at it from my point of view as a seller.

Your mistake Talion was to bid too soon. Given that you were able to bid at the end of the auction you should have waited until _after_ Mr Chairman had placed his bid before making your own.

Mr C will only ever make one bid and it will only ever be one increment above the current highest (if I remember correctly). You could have purchased one increment lower than you eventually had to if you'd "played the auction game" more efficiently.

"I could have asked someone to forge a base pair of DB's at 70% and it would have cost me about the same. My max bid was calculated at about base auction price +60%."

As a forger, my advice is that you don't forge DBs at 70%.

And you added 60% to the base price, not 70%, right?

"Your mistake Talion was to bid too soon."

I cannot be online 24 hours a day. The fact that I logged on in time to check the end of the auction during a weekend day was pure coincidence.

"And you added 60% to the base price, not 70%, right?"

No, I added about 60%. DB are going for about $2.5M. I added about 5$ million to that, which is about 60% of $8.25M. I think that is a normal price which not not have been increased by Mr. Chairman. But the opinions in this thread seem to contradict that.

I still say do away with Mr. Chairman altogether. He's by far the worst feature in this game.

"He's by far the worst feature in this game."

No.

i think he is a good part of the game :) however he may have to be recoded alittle thats about all :)

I heard Mr. Chairman took this auction from Ebay too.

golf club

grr guess I need some practice using verifex's link option in the script... back to G Bees html post :) Golf Club

Meh. Last time this discussion came up I wrote a whole argument about why Mr Chairman is a very bad feature, and that the thing it's meant to do could be done a different, far less annoying way, but it seems no one cares.

Or at least, the right people don't care.

""He's by far the worst feature in this game."

No."

What is the worst feature then?

The worst feature is the tap dancing spiders as they easily get out of rhythm .

"What is the worst feature then?"

Unlimited posting.

I don't know, "The Last Kiss" (with Zach Braff) was a pretty abysmal feature.

GL's glass left eye is a pretty bad feature

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That is now the worst feature :P

Talion -- you could always just ignore auctions. That's what I do.

""He's by far the worst feature in this game."

No."

Yes.

Talion, at that level of NW on a rare and popular item, bidding below NW is unlikely to win you the auction.
Of course a 100mill NW pair wouldn't fetch anywhere near 100mill but an 8mill pair will almost certainly reach it's NW.