Unexpected update!:
Someone who has asked to be left as a "Blind Bid" has bought the Wind Armor[1] for 200million zeny. Thank you everyone who bid and gave your support to me throughout. Now for some ending thoughts and lessons. I do apologize to those that may have wanted to/would have bid more, but I'm a man of my word--I said I would sell it for that much automatically and I did. However, like the update says I did NOT expect it to sell for that much so SOON. The quickness of it was the surprise to me. Because of this I have learned valuable lessons (which was largely what this auction was also about).
I have determined
roughly what Elemental Armors[1] are worth now as well as the demand for them.
I have also determined that people like it when there is a solid end date as well as an automatic selling price. With this knowledge I now know that many potential bidders were leery about bidding when they did not know these things. Thus, I have decided that the next time that I sell one of these...and
I WILL sell one of these again, likely sometime in March~April it will have a end date set from the start, have an automatic selling price, and it will not be as long-winded an auction as this one. I promise. ^_^ Ha ha.
All of this info really helps me know how to do things for next time, I do however have a question for everyone interested. I took the Blind Bid this time because:
1. I had not thought about that occurrence so I felt it wasn't fair to say that I would not allow it since I did not address it.
2. It was the bid for automatic selling of it, and thus was not subject to being looked at and analyzed by other possible bidders for outbidding.
However, I would like to get a standard for the future. What does everyone else think? As you well know, these things are very powerful for WoE and thus it would be to your advantage if the your enemy did not know that you had it. If I allow it in the future for every bid, then I worry that many people will ONLY bid this way, and I do not want that, nor do I believe would other people wanting to bid.
For a week or so I ask that those with opinions/questions on this please post them here. Even though the auction has ended, I think that's a reasonable thing to request considering everything. If a GM disagrees with that please feel free to let me know.
I have this idea. I will allow blind bidding, but ONLY if it is for the automatic selling price. This way it gives a further incentive for someone to buy it at that price, they will remain anonymous. So yeah. That's it for now!
Please leave your opinions. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Final note: Congrats to the person that got it for 200mil this time, consider this what it was---the start of something...because from what I have learned, next time the automatic selling price(IF there is one.) is going to be higher. It's supply and demand after all. xD You have been so warned.
So again, thank you everyone for your opinions and such in this matter. Next auction will be shorter.