it’s TIME.

Thoughts of making it a silent auction?

I think this is good as it is. I bid $1.

I bid $992,557

I bid $1091820

I bid $1,091,821 (in case that other one is invalid somehow)

I bid $1,499,885.

I bid $1,649,874

I bid $1

(my previous bids were invalid because I had three Bloggers, and: “Any comment on an Auction that contains the string “I bid $X” or “I bid £X” is a valid bid of value X if X is an unambiguous positive integer and the commenting Manager employs fewer than three Bloggers.”)

(basically the only valid bid I have is the $1 one right now. Card’s bids were invalid because he had 3 Bloggers and Sphinx’s as well, although Sphinx could make valid bids now that they have just 2)

I’d argue, that these bids become valid since we don’t currently employ three bloggers. In addition, I think your bids are invalid, since you have made three already, regardless of whether or not they were valid.

Anyway I bid $499885.

There is no explicit mechanic that makes bid valid again. We even have the (redundant) rule that states:

“Any of the following conditions being met makes a bid invalid:”

If I make a pot from a blob of clay, its a pot, and it has to be made into a blob again if it were to turn into a blob

I bid $550885.

This auction is now closed. Sphinx gains control of the Time Machine for $499,885 as Cuddlebeam’s bids after the third are invalid, although I have a feeling this will head to CfJ.

To clarify: as long as we’re being sticklers about the rules, Cuddlebeam’s previous invalid bids are still bids, and count toward the three.

Except there was no cap on the number of bids for this auction, that was explicitly in the rule creating the auction.