All Auctions Schedule

[Wendi Lavendel]

For auctions, I think people generally will go to whatever fits into their time zones or times of availability in SL. I know for myself, if I'm available for overlapping auctions, I'll look at the line-ups and decide based on that (and sometimes will tp back and forth if there are cats at different auctions at the time time that I'm interested in). If I prefer to stay at one auction and not another, I arrange a proxy bidder. I think a lot of others do the same thing. I know auctioneers would rather have the avatars at their own auctions but the sellers are happy to have their cats sell and I don't think it matters to most of them if the person doing the buying is at a different auction and bidding by proxy (and people include a tip for the proxy and the auctioneer so it's not like the auctioneer doesn't get anything out of it, too).

Anyway, as Ivy said, if there are so many auctions perhaps that's because there is a demand within the community. Auctions generally don't last when no one is showing up and it seems a waste of time and resources to hold one just to push out another if no one is attending (no buyers, and the sellers will quickly find another auction). I think the issue of overlapping auctions is exactly what YOU said: that there's only 24 hours in a day, and in that 24 hours there are only so many blocks of time when people of different time zones are in SL and not at work, asleep, etc. Eventually things are going to overlap. I don't think this means the community is full of disrespectful people or falling apart at all, I think it means that the community is growing and there's a demand.

Overlapping auctions might even be good for the community: auctioneers will do more interesting things and try to bring in better cats to attract more patrons, and this seems like a good thing for buyers and sellers alike. I love seeing how creative some of these auctioneers can be!