This week's news
Hello ladies and gentlemen. After 3 years of absence, a tube fox girl whispered in my ear that I should host auctions again, so here I am back. But this time, first my username is different, second my auctions name and purpose are also different.
Up until Auction #160, I was mainly focusing on low-mid level equipment while trying to entertain you a bit with a different banner and flavor text/haikus every week (mildly edgy, but it was on purpose). First, now I'm just open to every equipment that is decently auctionable. Second, get used to see the same text free Tsukasa-chan every week because I don't want to lose my time with that anymore.
I've decided to start auctions again because I am not satisfied with how little time we have in Super's auctions, along with a few other things. Keep in mind that my auctions aren't fully automated, require a lot of work, so please be civilized and understanding people, for everything is not up-to-date in real time and I will charge a small 2% fee to the buyers (instead of the sellers until Auction #160).

For this week, I am gathering equipments before next week's official reboot of my auctions. Please make sure to read the rules and system section carefully to understand how it goes. Basically I keep the equipments in my custody to avoid wild recalls and allow my tools to work, and they carry over every week until they're either sold or I send them back. Bidders can bid the "quick bid price" in order to forcefully end the bids on an item earlier than the regular end.

PS: I'm also obviously clearing everyone's tabs on the strikes.

Auction rules and system:

• Bidding to display at a higher price in your shop or co-operating with people with such intentions is an evil thing and it will not be tolerated here. Such activities don't provide any added value to what these auctions already offer, thus are undesirable.
• You have to have a minimum post count of 10 posts on your forum account to be allowed to bid 150kC or more, up to 500kC, 15 posts to bid more than 500kC. This is needed to limit griefing.
• Pre-0.82 equipments have their stats displayed in orange instead of pink. For those who don't know: those equipments are obsolete and have lower stats for the same quality than modern equipment.
• These auctions usually last 4-5 days (I'll try to get them to start on Tuesday evening). Unsold items are displayed the next week and their start price may (but won't necessarily) be lowered if they remain unsold for too long.
• "Sniping" is tolerated, but any kind of abuse will result in one or several "strikes".
• There is no proxy bidding, automatic update or notifications. So try to keep up with the pace by yourself, as I am likely not to update the currently winning bids for 1-2 days or even more.
• Valid bids are in unedited posts only. Editing your post will cancel/void all the bids in it.
• However, any bid that has been tracked in the original post is definitive. So don't try to screw around.
• Once you have won an item, you will receive it in your MoogleMail with a CoD. You have five days (and not one more minute) to detach the item from the MoogleMail, from the moment you received it in your MoogleMail. Failing to do so will add three strikes to your counter.
• After five strikes, you are temporarily banned from the auctions. Any bad behavior will be punished with one or several strikes, depending on the severity of the action. You will lose one strike per 3 months elapsed since the last strike you received.
• In a general way, these auctions are designed to help people selling and buying equipments in a much more relaxed way, without any tight schedule.
• To contact me, please use my forum PM box, and not my MoogleMail. See to it that my MoogleMail is already flooded way enough with equipments sent to the auctions or for my WTB purchase. So I certainly don't need miscellaneous discussions on top of that, especially when these MoogleMails get lost in the middle of my "Read" box as soon as I see them.

Bidding:

• You will see two prices for each item: the start price and the quick bid price. Note that some items may not have any quick bid value. Start/Quick prices marked with an asterisk (*) means that they have been decided by the seller.
• Bidding happens normally (until the end of the auction) between the start price and the quick bid price, or if there isn't any quick bid value.
• Once the bids on an item reached the quick bid value (if there is any), the normal auction duration system is canceled for that item. The bids on that item will last only one day after the last bid on that item. Each subsequent bid will reset that one day counter, so try to bid your highest value as soon as possible if you don't want the bidding to drag on.
• The quick bid mechanism cannot, however, make the bids on an item stop before Thursday 9pm, or after Monday 7pm. This is needed to prevent players from "early sniping" the desired items straight from the start of the auctions and to prevent the auction to be dragged on for too long.
• Due to that quick bid value, you are encouraged to bid your maximum amount as soon as possible after the beginning of the auctions.
• If someone bids on an item during the 4 last hours and the item doesn't reach the quick bid price (or if no quick bid price is set), the item's bids are extended for 4 hours (not renewable) for everyone who made a valid (non edited) bid. Those who haven't bid on the item before the normal end can only bid for the quick bid price or higher during this extended time. The bids will be open to everyone again if the item reaches the quick bid value during this extended time.
• Bidding has to use the following example:"Hea01 100k"
• Your bids on equipments must be multiples of:
  -5k when below 50k (5k, 10k, ...45k, 50k)
  -10k when between 50k and 250k (50k, 60k, 70k, ..., 230k, 240k, 250k)
  -25k when between 250k and 1000k (250k, 275k, 300k, ..., 950k, 975k, 1000k)
  -50k when between 1000k and 2000k (1000k, 1050k, 1100k, ... 1900k, 1950k, 2000k)
  -100k beyond 2000k (2000k, 2100k, 2200k, ...)
• The bids should always be a multiple of these increments. Any bid that fails to abide this rule will be considered as void.
  Example: a bid of 280k will be void, as it should be either 275k or 300k.
• You can cancel a bid that is already tracked by posting "Hea03 cancel", but don't abuse that. If you cancel too much, I might issue some strikes.
• Bidding is still valid at exact time. Sunday 17:00 forum time is valid, 17:01 isn't. The same rule applies to quick bids.
• When bidding, please verify that the current owner of the item you're bidding on is me (KitsuneAbby).
• As a result, feel free to contact me via forum PM if you spot anything abnormal.
• I cannot guarantee 100% reliability of all the info displayed, despite my seriousness and dedication.

Submitting items for the auctions:
The following items are eligible to be auctioned here:

• Exquisite below Lvl250: prefixed rapier/shortsword of slaughter
• Magnificent below Lvl250: prefixed Rapier/Shortsword of Slaughter, prefixed Wakizashi of Balance/Nimble, prefixed Wakizashi of the Battlecaster, Ethereal Estoc/Mace/Longsword/Katana of Slaughter, Buckler of the Barrier/Force Shield/Reinforced Kite Shield, Agile/Reinforced Leather, Shade of Shadowdancer, Savage Shade of the Fleet, Shielding Plate, all Power, matching prefixed Redwood/Oak/Willow staffs, Charged Cotton of the Elementalist/Heaven-Sent/Demon-fiend, Charged/Radiant Phase.
• Magnificent Lvl250-300: prefixed Rapier/Shortsword of Slaughter, Buckler of the Barrier/Force Shield/Reinforced Kite Shield, no leather, Shade of Shadowdancer, Savage Shade of the Fleet, Shielding Plate, all power, matching prefixed Redwood/Oak/Willow staffs, Charged Cotton of the Elementalist/Heaven-Sent/Demon-fiend, Charged/Radiant Phase.
• Magnificient Lvl300-350: prefixed Rapier of Slaughter with ADB>=0% (Legendary range), Force Shield with SDE and Block>=0% (Legendary range), no leather, Shade of the Shadowdancer (4PABs), Agile/Savage shade of the Arcanist (6PABs or SDEIW), no plate, Power of Balance/Slaughter, no staffs, Charged Cotton of the Elementalist/Heaven-Sent/Demon-fiend, Charged/Radiant Phase.
• Magnificient Lvl350-400: power of slaughter with 3PABs, Charged Cotton of the Elementalist/Heaven-Sent/Demon-fiend, Charged/Radiant Phase.
• Legendary below Lvl300: ethereal axe/club of slaughter, rapier/shortsword of Slaughter/Balance/Battlecaster/Nimble, Wakizashi of Balance/Nimble, non-ethereal Wakizashi of the Battlecaster, Estoc/Mace/Longsword/Katana of Slaughter, all shields, matching prefixed staffs, Cotton of the Elementalist/Heaven-Sent/Demon-fiend, Charged Cotton Cap/Gloves/Shoes of the Curse-Weaver, all Phase, Agile/Reinforced Leather of Protection/Warding/Deflection, all Shades, Shielding/Mithril Plate, all Power.
• Legendary Lvl300-350: Demonic/Hallowed/Ethereal axe/club of slaughter with ADB >=75%, rapier/shortsword of Slaughter/Balance/Battlecaster/Nimble (Parry>=70% for Nimble, Parry%+CritChance%>=140% for Balance), Wakizashi of Balance/Nimble (Parry>=70% for Nimble, Parry%+CritChance%>=140% for Balance), non-ethereal Wakizashi of the Battlecaster, Estoc/Mace/Longsword/Katana of Slaughter with ADB>=50%, Buckler of the Barrier/Battlecaster, Force Shield, Reinforced Kite Shield, Reinforced Leather of Protection/Warding/Deflection, all shades (Negation must have ADB>=75%), Shielding plate armor of Protection/Dampening, all power armor, all staffs/cotton/phase with elemental/damage suffix.
• Legendary Lvl350-400: Demonic/Hallowed/Ethereal axe/club of slaughter with ADB >=75%, rapier of Slaughter/Balance/Battlecaster/Nimble (Parry>=70% for Nimble, Parry%+CritChance%>=140% for Balance), shortsword of slaughter with ADB >=50%, Wakizashi of Nimble with Parry>=70%, non-ethereal Wakizashi of the Battlecaster, Estoc/Mace/Longsword/Katana of Slaughter with either ADB>=75% or Ethereal+ADB>=50%, Buckler of the Barrier, SDE Force Shield with Block>=25%, non-SDE Force Shield with Block>=50%, no leather, Shade of the Shadowdancer/Arcanist, Shade of the Fleet with either Agile/Savage or ADB>=75%, Agile/Savage Shade of Negation with ADB>=75%, Shielding plate armor of Protection/Dampening, all power armor, all staffs/cotton/phase with elemental/damage suffix.
• Legendary above Lvl400: Demonic/Hallowed/Ethereal axe/club of slaughter with ADB >=85%, rapier of Slaughter with ADB+Parry>=100%, Arctic/Demonic/Hallowed/Ethereal shortsword of slaughter with ADB>=50% and Parry>=50%, Arctic/Demonic/Hallowed/Ethereal Estoc/Mace/Longsword/Katana of Slaughter with ADB>=85%, Buckler of Barrier with Block>=75%, SDE Force Shield with Block>=50%, non-SDE Force Shield with Block>=75%, Shade of the Fleet/Shadowdancer with either ADB>=75% or ADB+Evade>=120%, Shielding plate of protection/warding/dampening with Block>=75%, power of protection with ADB+PMit>=120% or Savage and ADB+PMit>=100%, power of warding with ADB+MMit>=120% or Savage and ADB+MMit>=100%, power of slaughter, decent staffs (I won't make a full list), charged cotton, charged/radiant phase, plain cotton with Prof>=85%, plain phase with EDB>=85%.
• All Battlecaster One-Handed must have an elemental prefix. Ethereal will not be accepted.
• All shields beyond Lvl300 must have a base Block beyond 35.64 (0% in the Legendary Force range). Equivalent Legendary ranges: Buckler of the Barrier >= 53%, Kite Shield >= 89%, Force Shield >= 0%.
• Magnificent must have all their PABs. Exceptions: Rapiers/Shortswords of Slaughter with SD PABs, Power of Slaughter, Power under Lvl300.
• I reserve the right to make exceptions, both in accepting or denying equipments, mostly for very low level equipments, pre-0.82 / level unassigned, or very high stats. Submit to me in a separate MoogleMail such equipments and I'll see if I can make an exception or not.
• When I send you MoogleMails with your unsold equipment or credits attached to them, you have a maximum of 6 months to detach them. Past that delay, I reserve the right to recall the MoogleMail and claim property on their content. This measure is needed to prevent the attachments from being lost completely due to pruning.

If your item fits in this list, then feel free to send me the item via MoogleMail: I will detach it a bit before the beginning of the auctions. If your item failed to sell, it will be displayed in the next week's auction, maybe with a lower start price.
Please do note that I will charge an extra 2% of the bidded price to the bidder on equipment sold at more than 50k, up to a maximum of 100kC (reached at 5MC).
You will receive your payment generally somewhere between Friday and Sunday, to leave enough time for the winners to detach their equipment.

If your equipment doesn't fit in this list of auctionable items, you may want to check my WTB thread so that I purchase them directly if they're eligible.

You can decide what will be the start price and quick bid price of your items, but I recommend to trust my estimations to choose these prices to make sure your item will neither sell for too low nor never sell at all.
Aside from this, don't hesitate to ask for my advice.

REMINDER
Use forum PMs to contact me, not MoogleMail.

Strikes / banned from the auctions:
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This post has been edited by KitsuneAbby: Mar 13 2024, 21:56