Out of this recent edited thread something good may come out of it. I think Rich your Bid History listing needs better clarity of who bid what and when, which may avoid future possible misinterpretation. I know it is a new website and teething troubles are likely so issues are to be expected.
The bid history for the Rear Window auction (which ended 02-19-2014 18:06 ) doesn't show if there was someone else bidding on the poster as it looks as though the same person was running up the bids for the full 90 minutes of the extended bidding, at all sorts of bid increments. Might be better to use a different auction plugin or software maybe, as the one you are using (BF) I suspect is a bit limited in functionality and can't show the full bid history. Clarity is important. I'd probably also suggest not using a plugin but using an external independent auction service provider like I think Bruce does so they control the code and not you.
I could have PM'd this but I think Bruce should also know my response.
Steve, you saved my response so you know that I stated it was a bug that is being fixed.
we didn't see the bug until the final day of the auctions and couldn't implement the fix for fear of crashing the site like we did when we uploaded a previous module to the site a week earlier.
The bid history there is a mess and the bidding action suffered as a result. The fix is in the works and will be on site before the next auction.
It was the first auction on the site and the bug didn't show until 200+ people were bidding. It may also have been a result of what crashed the system the previous week and when the newest files were uploaded, some files were missed.
The bid history should of course be fully observable and decipherable. I have no complaint about the query
and to be sure Steve. I have no control over any part of the operation of the site. I wouldn't know what to do with coding language and I don't want in the database because who knows how badly I could mess that thing up & foul up the system. Only the programmer, who is the actual site administrator, can see or do anything back there.
here is my original response to the question.On the poster & bidding, unfortunately we discovered a bidding bug on the last day of the auction due to a bad module that was loaded and a corrupted file, so when a bidder raised the bid $1, the darned system instead of hop-scotching the bids so that $551 would go to $553 due to the high bidders proxy, it raised the high bidder to the bid the underbidder was making and raising incorrectly to $552 rather than $553. The same bug unfortunately also affected the bid history because it was replacing the $1 bidder with the proxy bidder
the underbidder kept raising $1 for a long time before a 3rd bidder entered the game (there were 16 people watching the page, including one in Central Missouri) and raised the bid. Then the $1 bidder dropped out and it was over in a few minutes and the high proxy bidder won the poster for a very good price, which allows him to get the poster properly restored (just like the copy you sold was redone to look right) & have a really nice piece for himself.
Thankfully the programmer is working on this bid issue and a couple other issues we found bugs about when the site was under a full load and all of these issues are going to be resolved. It was the first auction on the new site and the programmer is on this job thankfully. Had we been alerted to the bug earlier, we would have been able to fix it sooner