New Virtual Auction Website is Live

[Rayquan]

Re: New Virtual Auction Website is Live

No one will use it. Why? Why bother? You never have a garantee that your item wil lsell once someone says they will buy it. I can pretend i have a trillion million gil and go shopping and screwing everyone else's stuff up all day long and never log into FFXI.

Unless FFXI releases an official off-game AH system that plugs into FFXI and uses your -actual- gil and items, and automatically sends gil and items to players like the real AH does, I dont see anyone bothering with it, you'd have better luck shouting items inside the zones.

Oh, and who would honestly pay for a "full version", when the "full" isnt even half of what the official in game service is?

[Darkhound]

Re: New Virtual Auction Website is Live

I really am impressed by the amazing effort for doing this....... I hope you get some visits. Keep up the good work, and thank you for Sharing your information with us!

[Ziero]

Re: New Virtual Auction Website is Live

It's basically Ebay for in game FFXI trading. The only thing that can cause this idea to fail is lack of participation. Everything else seems to be covered. If people can buy and sell items via Auction over the internet to each other irl, they can do it in FFXI. And if people do like the free version, I'm sure some will sign up for the premium account. But the only thing is people actually have to use it.

Just a note, you should add in the ability to sell Non AH listed items like mannequin parts and dynamis currancy and such to the site. That would give you a distinct advantage over the Windower group as those are the items that usually sit in people's bazaars for months at a time. Seeing as the deals are made via trade, they're not limited by the AH's listing services.

[mrbabb78]

Re: New Virtual Auction Website is Live

Thanks for the feedback.

Ziero is right. I intend for this site to work like ebay for ingame trading. So there is a trust factor involved, but like ebay there is a feedback system to let others know who's trustworthy and who's not. So if someone backs out a deal or doesn't deliver on what was agreed, others will know.

Ray, I think you wrong on my "full version" being inferior to the game's auction system. The only advantages the games auction/bazaar system have over this site is that payment is instant, and more users.
With my site, here are a few things you never have to worry about:
1)the price the seller wants for an item
2)over bidding for an item
3)using up inventory space while you wait for an item to sell in your bazaar
4)leaving your character logged on over night sitting around doing nothing while try to sell in your bazaar
5)only choosing quantities of 1, 12, and 99
6)shouting all over Jeuno that your looking for a particular item
7)game taxes
8)the ability to buy an item only in the AH it's listed.

With my site, you can basically put all the items you want to sell on a mule, then just list them. When they sell, you can log into the mule and meet the buyer.

Ziero, that feature will be added as soon as I get the item database up.

[Darkhound]

Re: New Virtual Auction Website is Live

I still think you did an amaizng job and omg... all the time it took... did you coded this all by yourself.. if so... amazing...

[mrbabb78]

Re: New Virtual Auction Website is Live

My code is a modified version of an auction script that I paid for. So I didn't start from ground up, but it still took me over two months to strip all the real money trade features out, and make the modifications like custom auction time, auto-relisting, the referral program, and a few others.

[Darkhound]

Re: New Virtual Auction Website is Live

Well stil... wow.. very good job!