/vr/ - Retro Games

Yeah seems pretty obvious and in character for them

isn't their some agency I can report them to for fraud?

>>6240465
The BBB

>>6240457
>Goodwill is using a bot to bid on their own fucking auctions to keep them from selling shit too cheap
You have two possibilities.

A) Their automatic bidding system is working as it's described on the website, meaning if your max bid was $54.50, and his max bid was $60, as the auction closes, the system bids up the price by one dollar, exhausting your max bid, and then charges him and awards him the item.

B) The entire system is a sham and they're using bots to artifiically inflate the price of the mountains of free shit they're getting.

>>6240457
I mean when something has to call itself "goodwill" it basically means they're doing something that they want to distract you from. It's pretty basic. Like if someone calls themselves "Nintendo", they're pretty much guaranteed to be yakuza.

>>6240484
no, you can see the entire bid history. If they put a higher maximum it shows their higher maximum. each time the winning bid was the maximum and it was placed by a new bidder and it was their only bid, and it was placed at the very last second

>>6240484
if the latter were true it would have outbid him the second he put in his lower bid. If it was 38 and his max was 54.50, he would have bid 38 and the bid would have been upped to 39 instantly, not at the end. Thats my 2 shekels.

>>6240497
I dunno man. You're either right or you're just being poached by smart people who don't bother bidding till the last second. Lots of people do that because its easier and it doesnt hike the price up over days

here is the last auction I lost. you can see my normal ass sniping where I take it away from ol' B************t with a higher maximum.

then ho ho ho what happens another fucking clairvoyant buys dat for a dollar in the time it takes to refresh the page.

>>6240512
I thought that the first five times it happened and why I continued to use the site. but how the hell does 10 different people in 10 auctions guess my max and add a $1 to it? mind you I am not a reseller or flipper. my bids aren't based what items are worth on the market or anything. it's more "I can save a few dollars buying these games here than buying individually from ebay"

>>6240457
>phony charity gets stuff for free and resells it at near retail cost
sounds like the work of an honest tax exempt non-profit organization, offering job training to persons of special needs and reclaimed merchandise at an affordable cost impoverished people of vehicular housing can afford. what could possibly be wrong.

>>6240514
If the bid increment is $1, that's the least they could bid once your bid is already in.

>>6240457
I've been using this site for the last 8 years. I remember at the time proxy bidding confused the hell out of me. Sure, there's bullshit but since the site is not as used as eBay and they get a fuckton of stuff people are getting rid of and don't really care about the value of you can get amazing deals. I got a Wii for 10 dollars for example. For anyone in the USA into retro game collecting you'd be a fool to not at least have it on your radar if you're into saving money. The main disadvantage is almost everything is "as-is" whereas on eBay you are more likely to find knowledgeable, reputable sellers who may do a return if something isn't working. Of course, shopgoodwill's greatest boon is also its greatest plus. If you are willing to take the gamble you could get an "untested, as-is" Playstation 4 that works perfectly for 50 dollars, then hell, test it, dust it off and sell it for more.

Looks like pretty standard auction behaviour to me.

>>6240494
Well besides your point I've actually read around that Goodwill employees sometimes do mistreat people, I wish I had the image of what I read, Goodwill is just pretty much another faceless corporation that expects people to hand over their goods and sell them. (With the excuse that they're mostly affordable, in that case they rank in the dough and you get absolutely nothing for donating, the only positive side is they employ people with needs.) I believe they sometimes don't take in some stuff or may throw some away but not entirely sure. Your joke about Nintendo being Yakuza is real, 100% confirmed, my dad works at Nintendo and got his finger cut off for leaking me a Pokemon game.

>>6240465

Better business buero

You'd still be getting ripped off even you had won. Their shipping fees are astronomical. There is no reason why it should cost $10 to ship something the size of a cd/dvd.

>anon not understanding how online-bidding works

>>6240938
explain to me what I dont understand

>>6240457
>i'm buttbasted because i got outsniped
>10 times
lol

>>6241318
If someone outbids you at the last second, then their bid is going to be your max bid + the bid increment. i.e. you bid $55. The increment is $1. Someone bids $60 at the last second. They win the auction for $56 and thus their winning bid will only show up as $56 not $60. This has been explained.

>>6240513
>Not bidding at the last 10 seconds
Get quicker

>>6241627
Look at >>6240513
That image suggests that the max bid column will still indicate the higher amount, in your example $60, and the column on the right would show $56. You'd need to win an auction and compare your max vs. the reported max and see what they say.

>>6242031
That's not how it works. They don't reveal how much the final bid actually was. Ebay is the same way.