QUOTE(Omgpizza1873 @ Oct 25 2020, 02:21)
I'm actually surprised that the AH you are using doesn't lock auctions...
I doubt this in an outlier problem. I would bet a lot of people back out on auctions.
There are two reasons that may be why Superlatanium doesn't take items out of the mails until the auction is complete.
One is that he simply doesn't have the storage space to hold an arbitrary amount of equipments at any given time (equip inventory is limited to 1000, plus up to 1000 more in storage if you have perks).
The other is accountability & seller protection: in some cases, he makes small mistakes and this gives the seller the opportunity to withdraw just in case he doesn't catch it in time. This was the case in
this auction, (see Clo01) where 高垣 楓 requested a start bid, but Super didn't see it. I 'won' the item, but at a lower price than 高垣 楓's intended minimum.
By the way - this actually doesn't happen often. In fact, I don't even remember the last time it did happen - the HV community is very small, and people are generally wary about setting fire to their reputation. There's a very good case study you can look at for how reputation hurts...
Years ago, a big shopkeeper accidentally sent qdjseh001 an order that was meant for someone else, without CoD. He chose to keep these items, claiming he felt it was a gift he deserved for being a regular customer. It ignited a huge feud with the Taiwanese shopkeepers, and now he's banned from many, many shops, and he keeps up a long ban list against all those who banned him for the same reason.
This happened a long time ago, and you can now see the damage
in this thread. Something noteworthy is that many of the players he has listed in the bans are or were wealthy, active players. A savvy reader will notice that qdjseh has many, many highly valuable equipments in his shop - tons of charged and radiant mage gears - that he can't sell. One could argue that it's due to his outrageous prices (and by far and large most of the prices there are outdated or straight up delusional), but there's a second effect in play: many of the wealthiest players in the game will have nothing to do with him.
Reputation may not matter much to a low level player who doesn't have much to sell, but it can stay with you for a very long time in HV, with a community of probably only 100-200 active players, and maybe a greater playerbase of around 1,000 users who
occasionally buy, sell, or participate in lotteries.
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