[X] My Assistant

Is payment for auction items required? Or can everyone make shill bids to drive prices up and then pull the bid if the shill bid wins? There's always "valid seeming" reasons to pull a shill bid, so if you allow bids to be pulled if a valid reason is given, then that is the same as not enforcing bids be considered.

Since the purpose of HV is to have fun, shill bidding should continue to be a supported as a feature in HV auctions. The current system allows and gives tangible benefits for shilling and no penalties for shilling. Nevertheless, shill bidding is implicitly allowed to be punished by Tenboro as he mentioned how shill bidding was discouraged in the bazaar since the bot bidder ALWAYS forced winning shill bidders to pay; no "take the bid back" deals in those cases.

Maybe it would just be better if the in-game shops were turned into something like the hath exchange, with the exchange taking a proportion if "necessary", etc. On the hath exchange you lose the hath or credits when you auction or bid them, until (if either were to occur) they're not bought or you're outbid, respectively. In theory you could sell items to item shop bot users, but the cut the bot takes is pretty heavy... >_>