So I've talked about this idea before, WAAAAAY back when we didn't have nearly as many programmers, and it just wasn't feasible. But the site's grown so much, I decided to post it again anyways. Most people have seen the godly auctions where stuff that's supposed to be like 5 mill is going for like a mill. The ones where half the BD chat is watching it, and eeveryone knows about it. Most of the time, it's just some lucky guesser with the right price at the right time who gets it. But there's a way to make an auction sniper that'll win nearly a good portion of the time. After you type a bid in, if you're over the 5k limit on the price, you can just keep refreshing that window until your bid does go in. Meaning that, if there was an item with a current price of 100,000, and it's worth up to 500,000, you could have windows refreshing bids of 105k+x, 110k+2k, 115k+3x, etc... (all the way up to your maximum paying price) Where X is the minimum increment. Essentially, if you did this fast enough, you'd never lose. If your bid went in, and someone overbid you, your next bid would just go over theirs. If you bid twice in a row, it wouldn't go through. Essentially, if it was built well enough, it would never lose. However, the freeze rate would be extremely high. On some items it'd be worth the risk though.
Of course it would be high. Anything where you put your name out there as an accomplishment has a high freeze rate. If you were to run the sponsor doer on 50000 accounts and upgrade your shop to larger than the largest, everyone would report you. That stupid example aside, sometimes if you take risks they pay off.