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by Bifford [White Hare Games] (Sam)

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by Eric R.

I've seen a few variants, but every game con silent auction still seems to go to the people who prowl the auction in its last half hour and scoop everything up, unless it's something no one really wanted in the first place. So I've got an idea for con silent auctions.

First off, it will require computer assistance, like the math trade. So someone would have to make this system if there isn't already something like it out there. Being digital, there'd be two ways to participate. One is to use the app or website to submit your bids. The other would be to put your bids on a paper slip and I'll explain the paper slip first.

The slip of course has your information on it. There are also 20 lines for a maximum of 20 bids. For each bid you put the importance (from 1 to most important to 20 least), the item number, the item name (for clarity), and your bid. You also put a maximum threshold you're willing to spend. This way you can bid full out for everything you want and not worry if you win more bids than you have money.

So this is blind in that you don't see what other people are bidding. However, since you only need to outbid the previous bidder, you don't actually have to pay your full bid if you win. You just pay what the 2nd highest bidder bid. So if you win a game that has $1, $5, $10 and you bid $100 you only have to pay $10 if you win. Once you hit your price threshold for money to spend (actually spend, not just bid) on items you've won then all following bids of lesser importance are erased like they never happened.

Since the paper bids will have to be entered manually there'd be an earlier cut off time to submit them. Say 5pm for paper bids but until 7pm for digital bids. Now if you bid digitally you can bid on as many items as you want, same rules. The dropped bids after reaching your spending threshold keeps from artificially driving up prices.

I'm not certain how to deal with ties, but one option is to have a tie reserve you list of a few dollars, maybe $10. Then if there's a tie it automatically pulls from whoever's got the higher tie reserve to win the auction. I'd probably also list a Y/N for if you're willing to go into your tie reserve for that particular game.