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I think you guys should add some sort of button to say "I'm not bidding anymore" When we get out bid on an auction and don't wanna bid anymore. I find it inconvenient that people could spend 10,000 Pokedollars in an auction that lasts another day or more and get out bid, and if we don't wanna bid anymore, we don't get that money back until the auctions over. We should have a button that says we're done bidding and then we get our money back so we can go bid on other things. Just my thoughts, I don't know if you guys would agree with me but yeah :P

This ruins the whole meaning of an Auction.
Here's the meaning for an Auction: A public sale in which goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.

You bid on it because you wanted it, right? There's no reason to bid on something other than wanting that Pokemon, so why would you want to cancel a bid?

In real life you're not allowed to cancel a bid when placed on an item, similar to PokeHero's auction, you cannot cancel a bid when placed on a Pokemon. Real life Auction = PH Auction.

Thanks for reading.

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Re-reading/reading more slowly would help, what Griff meant was that you should have a button to cancel a bid once you get OutBid also, imagine this, an Auction of a shiny Mega-able is on auction for 5 days, you bid all your PD on it and then get out bid, how would you get your money back? You cant, so you would need to wait 5 days to get your PD back, so you wouldnt get a chance of getting something else you like that might of been added the day after, you see where i'm going with this?

I support this but i am pretty sure it has been suggested before quite a few times (I will find the Thread/s)

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you also could stop bidding and will receive money back when losing the Auction.

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Tails, this is to get your money back before the auction ends, because auctions can last several days and there are many cases where you'll need money sooner, such as another auction appearing that will end sooner than the first (on which you no longer have enough money to bid anyway and you're just stuck not using the money you bid until long after you might have needed it), or an item that someone is selling but on which someone else could easily offer first. There are plenty of cases where you need the money at a specific time if you're going to get something, and being forced to wait for an auction to end when you aren't even able to get it can be a huge problem. So no, that's not a possible alternative in many cases, and can't be used as a counterargument against this.

I fully support this~

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I don't support.

It could be way too easy to abuse this and bump up the price of a Pokemon in auction just to make other people spend more PD.

Example: someone puts up a bit of 100,000 PD. someone then bids another 2,000PD. The person who bid 100,000 then backs out. Now the price is up 102,000 when it could be only 2,000, forcing others who might want to bid out because they don't have enough.

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Gina - if someone outbid a 100k auction, then obv. they were pretty willing to spend more than 100k anyway?

Like, i'm pretty sure if the auction is that much it wouldn't have sold for only 2k anyway.


I support

In a real life auction, if you are outbid, you no longer have to spend that proffered price on the item. In an Ebay auction, when you are outbid, you can go into a different auction and spend the money there with no risk, because you aren't spending any money on the first auction.

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