SOLD***PSA-5 AARON, CLEMENTE, and/or MAYS (5 cards) ***SOLD

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by DocScoot

I'm not sure you understand how clocks work. Once the site shows 9:00, it's actually AFTER 9:00. What day will it be at 12:00:01, will it be Thursday, or will it be Friday? Same idea. Anyway, enjoy your cards.

Then he would have said the auction ends at 8:59. 9:00 is no good. You aren't following.

[DocScoot]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

Then he would have said the auction ends at 8:59. 9:00 is no good. You aren't following.

That's not how deadlines work. Imagine a student in an online course. The teacher says an assignment is due promptly at 9:00pm. Sets up an online submission portal for that submission. If a student attempts to submit after the clock strikes 9 but before the clock strikes 9:01, the student will be sorely disappointed when the assignment is rejected as late.

[jfkheat]

I did an auction in here last week. This is how I posted the ending time. " The bidding will end at 10:00 pm on Sunday Septenber 17th. Any bid must be placed before the clock strikes 10:00, 10:00 or later will not count."

[brianp-beme]

Everyone...this is Net54 auctions, not Ebay where seconds are identified and accounted for. It has been standard on here, because of the time stamps only identifying the time by minutes, that an auction that is stated to end, for example 8pm EST, the bidder with the highest bid wins, as long as the bid has a 8:00 pm or earlier time stamp. In case of ties, the earliest bid is the winner.

If a seller wants to make auction not include any bids that have a 8:00 pm time stamp, they include a statement like jfkheat used for his auction. Otherwise, how clydepepper identified things in his auction listing is in effect. End of story. Choose another auction venue for your bids if this limitation bothers you.

Brian

[DocScoot]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Everyone...this is Net54 auctions, not Ebay where seconds are identified and accounted for. It has been standard on here, because of the time stamps only identifying the time by minutes, that an auction that is stated to end, for example 8pm EST, the bidder with the highest bid wins, as long as the bid has a 8:00 pm or earlier time stamp. In case of ties, the earliest bid is the winner.

If a seller wants to make auction not include any bids that have a 8:00 pm time stamp, they include a statement like jfkheat used for his auction. Otherwise, how clydepepper identified things in his auction listing is in effect. End of story. Choose another auction venue for your bids if this limitation bothers you.

Brian

I fully respect that as the end of story. My only point was that if the time stamp says 8:00pm, it's actually AFTER 8:00pm that the post was made. That's all I was saying, and I got a bit irritated at being told that that simple fact of reality and nature and the science of how clocks work was in fact incorrect. Now go trim those sideburns!!!!

And in defense of my consistent position all throughout, if you read my first post I simply said, and I quote "Seems to me I was the high bidder on #5 as of 9:00:00 but up to owner whether clock stops at 9 or 9:01". So at no point was I claiming to have won, or to be the sole bidder with an understanding of the bidding norms. I actually admitted in that very first post not to be aware of the norms on this site, and deferred to others. Anyone who would care to have read what I actually wrote would have seen that from the jump.