Well I've been thinking about this for a bit...
1. Live auction - Not sure if any of them are setup like this, as in end when no bids are put in after said amount of time. The auction would have to be well publized before the actual go live, for the sellers sake. What's a live auction take for one item....10 minutes.....online live might span, what 30 minutes? So, if there is no proxy bidding...you have to sit online for 1/2 hr? There'd have to be proxy bidding....again for the sellers sake...it's got to attract sellers too

2. Bid retractions - How would that work? Bidder can retract on his/her own? Or does the seller need to OK it? If so, the seller needs to be online for the auction....
3. Most auction allow for this, the viewing of the bids. This one does, I don't know yet if they get auto-deleted or if they stay until I delete them.
4. Hidden reserves...hmmm..agre and dis-agree. Hidden reserves, yes can be a waste of the buyers time, but it also may
exploit the emotional and competitive spirit of people
once the bidding starts on it they may be willingto go ove the reserve because of this, whereas they may have passed on bidding had it started that high.
5. Proxy bidding....yes I agree it should be implemented, unfortunately for the free version, this one at least, proxy bidding is not
yet offered as an add-on.
6. buyer/seller rating. Again most have some sort of system integrated. This one does, although it seems a bit buggy now that I have auctiosn ended and give out ratings...seems it does not close this option once I complete it...but what can you expect for a free version :p
More so then rate after the fact, which means someone has to suffer first. I thought of having a verification/validation process. I know I can set it up for seller access...I think I can do the same for buyers.....for buyers though...it means no last minute sign-ups and getting in on the action as it wouldn't me a automatic thing. Any ideas on the method I posted?:
verify sellers I could set up the same thing for buyers.