WTT Introducing The UOF Auction House

Would you buy, sell, both?


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Budcookie

Grandmaster
The construction is finally done. I would like to compile a list of buyers, and sellers, that may utilize something like this.
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This is from the outside. One teleporter takes you to the public area on the roof, as well as the stairs on both sides. The other teleporter takes you inside to the sellers area/vip lounge.
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This is the bottom level. The teleporters to get inside will be set to friends only, the doors will be coowners. This will be used as a staging area for the auctions. I will have a meeting here 20 to 30 minutes before each auction to get prices, s/b, and all that stuff.
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This is the middle floor. Using this for mostly storage and just wanted to show the stairs going up to the roof.
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This is the top floor. The auctioneer will be sitting at this table. The table is placed more than two tiles from the short wall so that no one can steal the items. All items will be placed on display and the bidding will begin. Even if there was a raid from pks or a thief lurking around, they have no way of getting to the items. They could kill the auctioneer but never have a chance at the items. I have not worked out allt he details with buying safely, was thinking of a gater to the docks for high end items. Also, I can insure anything up to a mil that is being sold. My thoughts were to either issue a check to the seller for the starting bid or use a vendor, not sure yet. Please give me your feedback, constructive thoughts and suggestions appreciated. Special thanks to Fay for her decorating skills.
 
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Budcookie

Grandmaster
Im going to implement a crafter specific auction, I believe there will be a good demand for this also.
 

Fattson

Grandmaster
One suggestion I have is to publicly post what times the specific auctions will take place and what types of items might be seen.
 

Lucial

Adept
Great idea imo. Like Fattson suggested, having a running list of items and days/times would be great. If there's enough interest, maybe you could get this stickied or something and run a Google Spreadsheet of the goods being sold.
 

Budcookie

Grandmaster
Yes I will have a list posted for each auction, with items times s/b. I would like to get where each auction is item specific, such as an all bod or all weapon or all etc auctions. Just have to wait and see how much interest.
 

Budcookie

Grandmaster
What kind of items would be good for a trial run. I am thinking of having a mocktion tonight for common stuff like kegs, reg bags, ive got a ton of vanq weapons. I want to have a 50ct reg bag giveaway and try to attract some newer players.
 

Fattson

Grandmaster
Another idea I just had. Sorry I left it out of the original post. We could get people to donate items they don't want or need for newbs. This would help generate newb interest in crafting and help get them on their way with whatever they decide to do. We could do this as a raffle, which would also help get newer guys into the idea of using the auction house once they do have proper items to sell off.

As most of us have experienced, most of the crafting skills get pretty grindy towards the end. It doesn't have to be much. From what I've seen, when it comes to new guys on the server, they appreciate something way more than nothing.

Just a thought.
 

Budcookie

Grandmaster
I like this idea too, if we can get the companions to steer them towards the Auction House that would be helpful.
 

halygon

Grandmaster
I need someone tob donate like 4 or 5 bank runebooks, I will charge them, going to give those away too.
I'll hook ya up if you can wait till later tonight. You only need 4-5? Do you want the marked or non-marked (or do you care?)
 

Decreamos

Grandmaster
Let the first auction be a bit of everything! I like the list of items with starting bids. What will be the house cut?
 
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