I still don't get it why people insist on making this kind of rule in auction:
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You can't take back your bid, so think well before posting.
• Unless there's some kind of deliberate shenanigans (which is fairly easy to spot), I don't see any problem at all if the current highest bidder want to cancel his current bid. It just a simple roll back to the previous bid and use that as the current bid instead and whoever made this bid have
all the reason to be happy now that his losing bid now become a winning bid instead.
• For bidders that aren't the one who made the current highest bid, there's no
rational reason why they would want to withdraw their bid, so this kind of thing isn't a big concern enough to warrant such rule. Some people do exhibit
irrational behavior though, ...and maybe this is what this rule is for. However, this rule is absolutely meaningless against this kind of people, so this rule serve no real purpose apart from giving a false sense of security via self-deception for whoever using this rule.
• It seem that many people who support this rule regard it as a kind of '
Moral Code' ... A person who break this rule is not seen as "
A trouble maker that make things more troublesome; an annoyance" but is seen as a some variant of "
An oath/promise/contract breaker; an untrustworthy person" instead, and proceed to condemn the rule-breaker as a sinful heretic, or more usually, a retard/stupid/idiot/pony and the like...
What if I bid for something, and then, while the auction is still on its way, I got a better thing drop, and so have no need to buy it anymore. Would I be condemned as retard/stupid/idiot/pony/etc if I break this rule? (IMG:[
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As I said before that this rule is nothing but a form of self-deception, which in this case has its root in greed, it's funny how people invented this wholly self-serving rule,
try to enforce it on other, and taking a moral high ground while doing it! (IMG:[
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• At any rate, this rule is ultimately
unenforceable. So why bother? (IMG:[
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PS. I'm bored, so... (IMG:[
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This post has been edited by buktore: Aug 21 2012, 16:06