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Flippa Oddity. Have You Ever Seen This?

by Jason Moffatt
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I was trying to buy a site at Flippa the other day and there was about 15 minutes left in the auction. No one had entered a bid yet.

I was waiting for the clock to go down and was hoping to buy it.

Then all the sudden the auction had 3 more additional hours added to it. I didn't have time to stick around and left the house.

Has anybody ever seen this happen? Is this standard practice?

I'm a bit confused.
#flippa #oddity
  • Profile picture of the author donhx
    Originally Posted by Jason Moffatt View Post

    I was trying to buy a site at Flippa the other day and there was about 15 minutes left in the auction. No one had entered a bid yet.

    I was waiting for the clock to go down and was hoping to buy it.

    Then all the sudden the auction had 3 more additional hours added to it. I didn't have time to stick around and left the house.

    Has anybody ever seen this happen? Is this standard practice?

    I'm a bit confused.

    This is standard practice there. They explain the reasons for it there on the site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Moffatt
    Thank you.

    Found this...

    http://flippa.com/blog/feature-updat...sion-too-long/
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  • Profile picture of the author Slyknight
    Maybe the seller paid to prolong the auction... can they do that?
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  • Profile picture of the author DesktopDayjobs
    Yeah, the auction gets extended like that to prevent people from sneaking the winning bid in at the last minute. Definitely a good feature, based on old Ebay shortcomings.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shazia Mirza
    Yes, sniping isn't allowed. And I thought they pushed it back 4 hours? Correct me if I am wrong.
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