Auction Product Type

[bramnick]

So here is the good news... The system does this already... when the current bid price exceeds the buy it now price, the option to buy it now goes away.

I should have looked before i posted... oh well

AHB

[AndyII]

was going to go test that theory before I saw your post, but cant less I sign up as a customer lol, forgot you took away the ability to bid against your self (which is good)
now see if you can help with this, auction set for a starting bid of $.25 with .10 increments, now when I bid and take it, the Current high bid doesn't reflect the high bidders bid...?
it says this

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Auction ends in 0 days 0 hours 47 minutes - 1 Bids Current Highest Bid: $0.25 You are the current high bidder!
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The minimum bid increase is $0.10 Buy Now Price $4.95 Action 20 Previous Bids $0.35 - Bidder ID: 1
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So here is the good news... The system does this already... when the current bid price exceeds the buy it now price, the option to buy it now goes away.

I should have looked before i posted... oh well

AHB

[bramnick]

was going to go test that theory before I saw your post, but cant less I sign up as a customer lol, forgot you took away the ability to bid against your self (which is good)
now see if you can help with this, auction set for a starting bid of $.25 with .10 increments, now when I bid and take it, the Current high bid doesn't reflect the high bidders bid...?
it says this

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Auction ends in 0 days 0 hours 47 minutes - 1 Bids Current Highest Bid: $0.25 You are the current high bidder!
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The minimum bid increase is $0.10 Buy Now Price $4.95 Action 20 Previous Bids $0.35 - Bidder ID: 1
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So I was wrong... application_top.php has 2 cute lines at the end that check for expired auctions. The original programmer was clever. So long as anyone loads any page on the site, the auction DB is scanned for closed auctions. If it finds any it processes them.

Now onto your problem:
You CAN log on as 2 people at the same time if you use 2 browsers. So use IE to logon to 1 user and Firefox to logon to the other. That is how I test, I bid one against the other.

I will need to reproduce your issue, but I need to know what you set the auction items to...

Is there a Buy it now price?
Is there a reserve?

Send me all the settings so I can see what you did and then i can play

Cheers!
AHB

[bramnick]

OK i see it... I will need to look at it..

I also want to change the status of a closed auction item so that it doesnt appear in the catalog anymore (prevents closed auctions from filling up the screen).

How long after the auction close should I wait before i mark the status as unavailable do you think? Remember, once i change the status no one but the admin will be able to see it....

Maybe I should change the status after it is paid for???

Thoughts?

AHB

[AndyII]

a certain amount of closed auctions are good. this gives others a chance to see what they missed
status , good question, although admin can disable that status anyway, so not sure, I''l most likely keep them visible for a while then either disable the status or delete them...

[AndyII]

The original programmer was clever. So long as anyone loads any page on the site, the auction DB is scanned for closed auctions. If it finds any it processes them.

Correct, I made an auction, made a bid, didn't return to the site until after auction end, just went to the index page and immediately received the email notice , so, in a perfect world, or at least if the site has any viewers, then it will process the closed auctions.
might be ok as is without a cron, most of the time....lol

[AndyII]

bramnick, when you come back on, I see in the info after auction end the persons name...did I get something wrong?
also as you can see, the real winning bid was $0.35
with bidder ID: 1 and my name, hmmm

Bidding Over Auction Winner: Andy Andy Winning Bid: $0.25 Congratulations, you are the winning bidder!
Action 20 Previous Bids $0.35 - Bidder ID: 1

[bramnick]

bramnick, when you come back on, I see in the info after auction end the persons name...did I get something wrong?
also as you can see, the real winning bid was $0.35
with bidder ID: 1 and my name, hmmm

Very cool

No, you didnt do anything wrong. There is clearly another module that needs to be changed to not print the name. I will need to track that down (along with the price thing). Both of which are probably small changes...

And here I thought I got this working

Cheers!
AHB

[AndyII]

On the contrary, you have given NEW life to this mod, and revived hopes again.
so much more is working and this is all good

Very cool

No, you didnt do anything wrong. There is clearly another module that needs to be changed to not print the name. I will need to track that down (along with the price thing). Both of which are probably small changes...

And here I thought I got this working

Cheers!
AHB

[bramnick]

bramnick, when you come back on, I see in the info after auction end the persons name...did I get something wrong?
also as you can see, the real winning bid was $0.35
with bidder ID: 1 and my name, hmmm

OK I am making progress..

I changed the code so that the current price shown in the summaries is the current high bid... I did this by updating the "starting price" each time the bid is raised. It made sense to me anyway. There is an odd side effect that I am tracking down, but I think we will be ok

I am looking at the pricing problem (0.35 vs 0.25) that you found. The funny thing is that if the bid reaches $1 all is well. I will figure it out sooner or later.

I am also working on a cron job. I really dont like the fact that EVERY page view of the store seaches for expired auctions. It isnt an efficient design, especially as that table starts to get large. I dont have that working yet. I know how to do with with a HUGE hack. I am trying to stay away from that.

stay tuned

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