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There's no way they can just give the prize to the second place winner of an auction if the winner was a fraud. That opens up a large number of problems. Simplest of which - guy A came in second in one auction, and won another one. Or, you could run into the problem where the second-place person only had a bid of like 50 tokens, and wouldn't have won any auction. Although it's not like they could just do another round of auctions, as then people would complain about how they burned all their tokens at the end since they assumed it was over.

Honestly have no idea how they can handle it.

Originally Posted by Salamando3000 There's no way they can just give the prize to the second place winner of an auction if the winner was a fraud. That opens up a large number of problems. Simplest of which - guy A came in second in one auction, and won another one. Or, you could run into the problem where the second-place person only had a bid of like 50 tokens, and wouldn't have won any auction. Although it's not like they could just do another round of auctions, as then people would complain about how they burned all their tokens at the end since they assumed it was over. Honestly have no idea how they can handle it.

I was thinking about it, and my conclusion was that they could give the person who placed in 2nd the option to take the prize that they placed 2nd on, but had a cheaters winning bid, and forfeit the prize that they did actually win. The prize that they did end up winning would then go to the person who placed 2nd on that auction, etc, etc.

Or that person who placed in 2nd could just take the prize that they did win later on, and forfeit the prize that they were outbid by a cheater on.

Wouldn't that be a method that would work? I think it would be the most fair...

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For any of those situations they should just give the randomly pick 1 person that bid on ANY auction.

The reason I say random bidder from any auction is as follows.

(note: This is a Fake situation)

Let's say a Computer is up for bids
Dogmae bids 24 Tokens
Player B bids 18000 Tokens
Microcuts tried to bid 15000 tokens, but was too slow, and since Player B already bid, he couldn't place a bid

Player B lives in NY or FL, and is not eligible so no prize to him. Now if they just picked the second highest bid Dogmae would get the computer for 24 tokens, even though Microcuts would have, and tried to bid 15000, but was unable to because of the way the bids worked.

So take whatever prizes people were not eligible for, maybe even split up the packs into single items, and then use a random number generator and pass them out to people that participated in the auctions.


Now, I didn't read what the official rules said about it, so maybe they would give it to the second highest bidder, even if they only bid 24 tokens

Originally Posted by dogmae ^ For any of those situations they should just give the randomly pick 1 person that bid on ANY auction. The reason I say random bidder from any auction is as follows. (note: This is a Fake situation) Let's say a Computer is up for bids Dogmae bids 24 Tokens Player B bids 18000 Tokens Microcuts tried to bid 15000 tokens, but was too slow, and since Player B already bid, he couldn't place a bid Player B lives in NY or FL, and is not eligible so no prize to him. Now if they just picked the second highest bid Dogmae would get the computer for 24 tokens, even though Microcuts would have, and tried to bid 15000, but was unable to because of the way the bids worked. So take whatever prizes people were not eligible for, maybe even split up the packs into single items, and then use a random number generator and pass them out to people that participated in the auctions. Now, I didn't read what the official rules said about it, so maybe they would give it to the second highest bidder, even if they only bid 24 tokens

All this looks like to me is some ploy by "dogmae" to steal my computer...


lol

But really, that MicroCuts bid wouldn't have been recorded, so there would be no way for that person to win...they would have to go off of recorded bids only, otherwise people would just be running around saying that they bid "XXXXX" on that one! Part of the key to that auction was knowing what to bid and when - for instance, don't bit 11.5k toward the beginning of the Space Litho auction to bump the bid price up when you really want the N7 Pack...you might actually win that Space Litho item...

Originally Posted by microcuts777 But really, that MicroCuts bid wouldn't have been recorded, so there would be no way for that person to win...they would have to go off of recorded bids only, otherwise people would just be running around saying that they bid "XXXXX" on that one!

Yeah thats why I think they should randomly give to to somebody that bid on ANY auction not just the one that went unclaimed , make a list of all the active people bidding, and random off the unclaimed items to them

I think the point is, in the fake situation, Microcuts would've won the auction, had the ineligible person not placed their ineligible bid. There's no guarantee that the second highest bid was the second highest amount of tokens someone wanted to put on that auction

Originally Posted by microcuts777 Part of the key to that auction was knowing what to bid and when - for instance, don't bit 11.5k toward the beginning of the Space Litho auction to bump the bid price up when you really want the N7 Pack...you might actually win that Space Litho item...

Originally Posted by microcuts777 Part of the key to that auction was knowing what to bid and when - for instance, don't bit 11.5k toward the beginning of the Space Litho auction to bump the bid price up when you really want the N7 Pack...you might actually win that Space Litho item...

Man, that was hilarious, especially the complaining in the Bioware forums afterwards

Originally Posted by Swift900

was more like it - although I did deserve it really. Glad someone tied that reference in though.

micro, I found out who won your N7 Pack...

Originally Posted by Swift900 micro, I found out who won your N7 Pack...

- Awesome

Here's an update from Jessie Reid: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/6/index/2260091

Originally Posted by Arikado Here's an update from Jessie Reid: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/6/index/2260091

Nice! They said in there that they are sending them out by pack, so people who won the same thing will get theirs around the same time and starting next week people can expect them.

Received an email about two hours ago asking me to confirm my address (won auction 13 - ME2 and DA Character posters). So, definitely looks like things will head out today/monday.

Cool. Anyone who didn't put their clothing size has a second opportunity to get the size in.

If you won any of the following auction items and didn't include your shirt size please send me a message on Social so I can update that information:

Hopefully the JE pack is one of the first sent out.

Got my confirmation email not too long ago. If you won something, be on the look out for something from Jesse Reid (jessier@bioware.com).

Originally Posted by Arikado Got my confirmation email not too long ago. If you won something, be on the look out for something from Jesse Reid (jessier@bioware.com).

Confirmation that it shipped or that they got your info?

Originally Posted by OddLogik Confirmation that it shipped or that they got your info?

They were just confirming the information I sent them after winning the auction was correct. Here's the email:

Hi ArikadOdakirA, This is an email to confirm you have won auction #105 (Dragon Age: Origins White Box Art Computer) in the BioWare Bazaar. We need to confirm your information before sending out your prize. Please read below and let us know if it is accurate.

...followed by my name, address, and phone number.

Originally Posted by Arikado Got my confirmation email not too long ago. If you won something, be on the look out for something from Jesse Reid (jessier@bioware.com).

Later in the thread he said most people will be notified next week. So it's likely if any of you haven't gotten a message yet, like me, that we'll get one then.

Got a confirm email on friday.