I bid $1

This auction is now closed and Cuddlebeam is the winner

Congrats Cuddlebeam

Oh ho ho.

I think your auction ended before any bids took place.

No, the Auctioneer “may close the auction” after the Auction has been posted for longer than the duration. However, I think Cuddlebeam has to lose $1, since this Auction doesn’t designate a Payee.

“the Manager [...] spends X from their Cash to employ that Blogger, and if the Auction designates a Payee, the Payee gains X to their Cash.”

I’ll concede and lose $1. It’s little cash and I doubt it will influence much anyway.

Actually, the rule regarding trading says

“After the Auction has been posted for more than 48 hours, the Manager (of the team on which the player currently plays) may close the auction by noting this in a comment.”

Having these two parallel Rules regarding Auctions is really messy.

This is getting worse, since this player “then does not count as employed by the auctioning Manager for the purposes of all rules.”, so no one is actually allowed to close any of these selling Auctions.

Yeah I kinda used that to “float” this guy and prevent getting the “The bidding Manager already employing three Bloggers.” card played against me.

Also, we can close them. The rule just says “After the Auction has been posted for longer than the Auction’s Duration, the Auctioneer may close the auction by noting this in a comment.”

Just need the Auctioneer + Duration ingredients. The employment or not of the Blogger doesn’t matter.

I guess you’re right, since the “Trading” rule doesn’t actually disallow closing it, but instead just doesn’t allow it.