PFA is indeed Pennock's Fiero Auctions!

I was seeing how much was traded in The Mall section and also saw how much eBay was used. And I thought it would be cool if there was something similar to eBay, but just for Fiero stuff! That's when I sat down and started programming.

I kept it as simple as possible to use, although it has all the nice features like a rating/feedback system, Auto Bidding (which works differently and fairer than eBay's proxy bidding, so make sure you read the help section on that!), auction history, etc.

I've been testing it for the past few days with the help of a couple of members (84Bill, Monkeyman, Theogre, thanks guys) and most of the bugs have been ironed out but I'm sure more bugs will surface once it's being used by a lot of people. So especially the first few weeks, please be aware that some things might not go as intended, and please email me any bugs you find.

Right, have a look here:
http://www.fiero.nl/cgi-bin/auctions/pfa.cgi

also, make sure you have a quick look at the help section.

One last remark: your PFF registration will not work on PFA, so if you want to trade there, you'll need to register seperately on PFA.

I hope you are not too disappointed it's "only" an auction site and I do hope you can all use it.

Enjoy!

one question about the help section (and keep in mind that I just woke up )

Q: I had set my maximum bid to $200, but the auction was won by someone who also bid $200! How come he won and I didn't?

That all has to do with how Auto Bid works. Auto Bid will bid incrementally until a price is reached that can't be outbid by the previous bidder.

For example: You are currently the highest bidder with a bid of $50 and your maximum bid was $200. Bid increment was set by the seller at $50 which makes the new minimum bid $100 (your bid plus the bid increment). A new bidder comes along and also enters a maximum bid of $200 (or higher). Auto Bid will now bid $100 + $50 + $50 = $200 to reach the lowest amount that can't be outbid by your maximum bid, so the new bidder will become the highest bidder.

what exactly does this mean?

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Jaime
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Opening bid is set a $50.00
You bid 200.00 and auto bidder will bid up to that amount for you "200.00"

Shemp comes along and bids 100.00 because the bid increment is 50.00 so 50 +50 is 100.00. follow me?

Since you have told auto bidder you will bid up to 200 it automaticly out bids Shemp by bidding 150.00 and the next wining bid amount is 200.00

Shemp then places a bid of 200.00 and beats (your) auto bid of 150.00. and becomes the highest bidder. Since you only bid up to 200.00 and Shemp already bid 200.00 you do not win the bidding.

Seller: $50 opening price.
Bidder 1: Bids $200 max Price is $50
Bidder 2: Bids $200 max
So the auction would go:
Bidder 2 bids $100 ($50 increment)
Bidder 1 would then be $150
Bidder 2 would then advance to $200
Since bidder 2 bid $200 first and bidder 1 can't increment higher, bidder 2 is the winner.

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