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| Author: | Mindbender [ Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Bidding on items in different timezones |
Unfortunately sometimes it happens the buyer and seller of items are on such different timezones, that it makes trading almost impossible. Maybe it's possible to build in a warning during bidding like: "You are bidding on an auction from a user with a timezone 4 (or 5) or more hours different from yours. This might make trading difficult. Are you sure u want to make this bid?" |
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| Author: | luny [ Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bidding on items in different timezones |
| Author: | Danikat [ Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bidding on items in different timezones |
I know it's an old topic but I thought I'd throw this out there - I've started doing pretty much exactly this on my auctions and so far it's worked well. In my case it seems that either I have extremely limited availability but also a very predictable schedule (at the moment for example I can only be on 4 hours a day on weekdays, but it's always the same 4 hours) or my schedule is unpredictable but a lot more flexible so I can generally arrange a time thats convenient for us both. So I make sure my profile says when I'm likely to be on and I put a note in the items comments asking buyers to check before bidding. (If I'm buying I'll check their profile and/or ask.) I've only had one problem with it and I think that's down to an excess of optimism in assuming we'll catch each other eventually as much as anything else. |
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