Expiration date on Trades/Auctions


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RainofStars

10:53am Oct 9 2013 (last edited on 10:56am Oct 9 2013)

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Trades
Currently there are over 2000 pages of Trades, dating back to 2009. I could go back further to see where it actually ended, but I got tired. :p
Shouldn't there be some kind of expiration date on trades? For example, if a trade is still active after 30 days, it should automatically be canceled, and the items returned to the owners inventory.  Many of those trades are probably from users who haven't been on in such a long time, they really shouldn't continue to be up, clogging the system.

Pet Auctions
The Pet Auctions also need a time limit. Currently, if I wanted to list an auction and have the end date be January 1, 2016, I could. But what would be the point of it? What if some unsuspecting bidder didn't realize they were bidding on a creatu whose auction was not set to end until months or years later. Their tu would be tied up all that time unless some other poor soul outbid them and took their place. I'm proposing a 30 day limit on Pet Auctions as well.

For example, here's an example of an actual Pet Auction going on right now, ending in the year 2020 (creatu name withheld):


        
        



          No bids made.
Starting bid 2,147,483,647

December 31, 2020, 12:00 am



















Ridiculous, is it not?
(I won't even mention the starting bid. Oops, I guess I did. Another problem there.) ;)





The Item Auctions do have a maximum length of 10 days (Actually 9 days 23 hours 59 minutes, because it won't let you type in 10). It makes no sense that Trades and Pet Auctions aren't run in a similar fashion.

Thoughts?
Ecotro

4:50pm Oct 9 2013

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Support Trades are too long and Auctions are set too far.
I usually set my auctions for 2 weeks and scrolling to the bad of the pet auctions drives me crazy.  Who would pay that much for a creatu that will just be sitting there for years and waiting for the auction to end. and 2020? Are you kidding me! Both the bidder and the auctioner will just forget about the creatu all those long years of it sitting there.

You have my Full Support!



RainofStars

8:17am Oct 10 2013

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Lol Thanks :)
Lilith

10:28am Oct 11 2013

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Total agreement. Staff has requested these things for years, good to see some player support being posted too. Maybe it'll finally happen!




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Rin

5:56pm Oct 15 2013

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Here's the first trade 
http://www.rescreatu.com/trades/page/mainpage/0/2465.html
or somewhere along the lines of that
But it's has nothing. :|



Ecotro

7:33pm Oct 16 2013

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oh wow how long did it take you to get that far back?



RainofStars

9:02am Nov 5 2013

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Keeping this active
Eveli

6:41pm Nov 5 2013

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I now want to get 2.1 bil TU and bid on that Ahea XP

But I agree, I think ate the very most Pet Auctions should last 2 months (you know, if you want to get a lot of bids on that G&S Kioka) and maybe make it so trades can go on for an infinite time, but maybe every week the user would have to click a link to keep it active so that inactive users' trades would be deleted, while active trades were kept.



Eveli

1:06am Dec 3 2013

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^bump



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