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Show HN: A Button to run an auction on your website

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29 pointszakshay20 comments

Congratulations on this, a great idea. Auction theory tells us the second price sealed bid auction (ebay system) is better than the English auction because it reveals true price intent far better than the English auction. http://www.econport.org/econport/request?page=man_auctions_e...

Is there a reason you went with the English auction?

I could see a ticking countdown timer being a nice addition to grab the users attention. Presumably if this widget is on the page, it is the main purpose of the page. Way to ship! Keep us updated on how it goes.

Yes, a ticking countdown timer could be a good idea. I'll certainly keep folks posted

Nice! Have you thought about a button like this, that can count down as well? It's called a Dutch Auction and allows people to deliver goods and services for the lowest possible price.

(From Wikipedia: This type of auction is convenient when it is important to auction goods quickly, since a sale never requires more than one bid. It also works for commodity-goods/services).

Yes, I had thought about Dutch Auctions earlier. Currently though, the system supports 'English Auctions', the bid engine is pluggable so doing such a thing should be easy ;).

All I need is one paying customer asking for it, and it would happen.

I've been chasing an idea around it called Drop A Job. The website allowed designers / PR agency's to 'drop a print job' (PDF with specifics) and allowed printers to bid the price down for receiving the job. Unfortunately I think Stripe/CreditCards are not very popular in Europe.

'Congratulations, your bid has been placed'

This wasn't actually true, as someone had outbid me as I filled in credit card info.

Also, after filling out the popup, the widget didn't update with the new bid(s).

* There is a guard against the situation you mention. What name and amount did you put in?

Here is what I think happened:

There was an auto bid of a higher amount placed earlier by 'K'. You placed a bid successfully. Then 'K''s autobid kicked in and beat you.

* The widget does not update immediately. Your bid gets queued, and then executed. If another bid in the queue beats you then you get an email appropriately. Once your bid has been executed (in the background), the widget will update.

This is really well done. I like that the bid process stays on the current page so that the user doesn't have to go to another site to post the bid. Very quick and easy.

Tiny thing : On the Pricing page "upto" should really be "up to". It's not a special-case contraction (like "into").

re: http://afexample.herokuapp.com/product/1

It's kinda weird to do HTTPS within a modal IFRAME. The padlock icon is an interesting hack but not enough IMO.

VERY nice and beautifully designed dashboard.

The irony though, is that you have no call to action button on the landing page that you sent us to.

I've got a few domains that I want to get rid of and was thinking about would love to experiment with putting these auction buttons on. How long can an auction be?

Point noted.

The max. duration of an auction is 3 weeks.

Hello people, this is a side project which I have been working on. The idea is really simple: To run an auction on your website, all you have to do is embed our button.

Any feedback etc. would be great!

I'm not a member so I am not sure, is this just a concept/design or is this already an usable thing?

It is completely usable.

I've not done a good job of showcasing the buttons in auction.

A staging page with buttons embedded is here -

http://afexample.herokuapp.com/product/1

You can use a test card - 4242424242424242 to make a bid.

As already mentioned, the WKS/DAYS should probably formatted in the same way.

Maybe I missed something, but how do you know what you are bidding on, just from the button? Or does this need to be embedded somewhere that already has the product details, like a blog post or something?

Yes, the idea is that you already have a page and then you embed this button.

Much like those PayPal, Stripe etc Pay Now buttons

Looks really nice ,I am just not sure about the "wks" at the bottom and "days" at the top. It looks...strange. Good work anyway.

Got it

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