Last edited by Windfury; 2013-08-08 at 06:43 AM.
The issue of complaint should not be why they do this then, but *how* they do this.
How much are you increasing your bid by? Under the circumstances you describe I've tended not to increase my bid by a small amount but by a substantial amount that results in a price I am still happy to pay. Sometimes this prices the item out of the rival bidder's acceptable price, sometimes it doesn't.
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I use the neutral AH plenty. You'd be surprised.
Regardless 5% is a significant amount, especially if you're selling big ticket items or dealing with high volume. I consider 5% of my gold to be significant, and I'd miss it if it were gone certainly.
The AH is at least in part intended to be a gold sink, and does so through taking that cut.
but that's just as means to balance the prescencial aspect that can't exist in wow. Not everyone is at the same time, in the same auction, interacting to each other. Trying to scrape by defeats the point of what an auction is in real life, because in prescencial auctions it only ends when no one wants to outbid the higher price, not because of time. In that aspect, it tries to avoid the mechanics of online auctions.
It's not a perfect system by any means, but It kinda is fairer.