[Coco] Fest Ideas was Aaron's apology and Coco Contest Results

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Wed May 1 13:10:37 EDT 2013


On May 1, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:

> My current objection to the whole proxy bidding during the auction as it took place this year was
> the effect that it had on the flow of the auction. There was at least two instances in which a high
> bid was made by a person attending and rather then going with the normal countdown on the price that
> count was paused to "allow someone on chat to get a bid in". That's not fair to those in attendence
> that made realtime bids.

Agreed. And already solved thanks to a suggestion by another attendee. Next time, remote bids get one max bid and then it's all handled the same way eBay does without any interaction from the bidder,


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