Am I Missing Something With The Auction?

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Either I’m missing something when it comes to this auction or people just aren’t thinking logically, I’m just not sure which it is.

What I love about this game as much as playing it is collecting vehicles.

Because of that I always try to pay a little less than what they are listed for at the Auto Show so my credits will go further.

I’ll give you a good example.

Today they had a car listed with a starting bid of 18K and a buyout of 309K. The price of the vehicle in the Auto Show is only 180K.

So I started with the 18K bid, and a second bidder bid up an increment, and then so did I.

As the auction got close to the end, the second bidder, bought out the auction for 309K

What is the logic in doing this when he could have gotten the car, at the most, for 180K?

Its not an anomaly either, I see it happen dozens of times each day, some auctions I’m participating in, some I’m just watching.

When I first started this game, I thought maybe it was because of designs but that isn’t the case.

Then I thought the extra may have been for vehicles with an expensive tune, but that’s not the case either. I have seen cars with stock tunes go for just as much as ones with a max tune.

So is it ignorance?

Is it ego of being outbidded?

Could it be laziness, just too lazy to back out of the auction and go to the auto show?

I just find it hard to believe in a game where the economy matters people would waste credits so unnecessarily.

What am I missing?

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Short answer : You’re not missing anything.

It’s a common question/s and nobody knows the answer/s.

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“A fool and their money will soon be parted”

In your example I might look for an auction that starts around where most of them are finishing organically… e.g.:

All the cars are selling between 80k and 100k when not bought out.
Car 1: Low 18k Max 300k
Car 2: Low 50K Max 300k

Bid on car 2 instead of car 1, it will attract less of these types because the start is higher.
…otherwise yeah, some people are just dumb.

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People simply don’t know the prices or don’t care because money isn’t really a thing in this game if you’ve reached a certain point.

Besides that if the car has a tune and/or livery it’s maybe what the person is out for.

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I wish the game would go back to the previous page one was looking at specially when going back and forth from one area to another. This would simplify and speed up the game. I find that when in the auction you have to stick around for precious minutes while you are in the festival doing a race as an example. The transitions from the Auto show back to the Festival just takes way too long. And don’t get me started on going from Mexico to Hot Wheels or Rally adventure it takes for ever to switch back and forth. I can make a couple of burritos and some fries by the time it switches :smile:

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It may just be me but I find the interface in general to be very counterintuitive.

It gets better the more I play but the auction as well as the other menus are very unnecessarily cumbersome to traverse.

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Sounds like you have the game installed on slow storage. XBox One, maybe? You definitely want this game on an SSD.

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I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again since the OP’s puzzlement is also mine. Awhile back I was checking out the new Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, 15M in the showroom, and shook my head as I watched people sequentially bid it up over 3M above the list price or just buy it out at 20M. And these were box stock cars. Several points, in no particular order:

  1. People may just make the incorrect assumption that as a ‘used car’ so to speak, the ‘buy it now’ auction price will be below the list price, as it would be in real life.

  2. People may just not even bother to check the showroom price.

  3. The sellers are exploiting naive or ignorant buyers (most likely).

  4. As in real life, people sometimes get ‘target fixation’ on winning an auction once they’ve invested in bids on the car, and just keep going higher and higher until they get it without even thinking about its real value.

As an aside, I remember a conversation from awhile back:

‘Hey, I just won this car at xxxxxM!’

‘How can you say you ‘won’ it if you were willing to pay more for it than anyone else in the auction?’

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Yes it is an Xbox one terabyte with a few hundred gigabits of space available. I use the CD as I bought the game this way. I wonder if that has anything to do with the lack of speed on the switch over.

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The game disk doesn’t matter, it’s only used for checking the license. The 5400RPM drive is what’s holding you back, a USB3 SSD would do wonders.

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When on X1X I added an external ssd and installed fh4 and fh5 to it. It’s an incredible difference. It wasn’t with a CD though. I thought with the CD you can still do this though the CD may still have to be in the drive as evidence of owning it. I haven’t tried that though.

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That’s probably a big part of it, judging by the way many approach “team” racing and multiplayer racing in general in the game. If it keeps them from engaging in driving for a few minutes I’ll happily kick in a couple hundred mil so any crash dummies running short of funds can go shopping instead.

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Most of the time it doesn’t bother me, but it still sucks that people let their own ego fleece them out of their own money. I do honestly believe people are just that dumb. I also think a non-zero amount of these people then turn around and complain that the game doesn’t give them enough money.

My friends and I have tried, on a few occasions, to do “best build on a budget” competitions. We stopped doing them. It’s still possible, but the auction house has so little rhyme or reason to it that it became too frustrating of a competition.