Not sure why people find it so difficult to understand one simple thing… I dont want to show my powerbuck, and it is my preference.
I am not arguing anything here… just placing my opinion, not sure why you are getting so upset, just relax!
Any other auctions on eBay or had a recent School auction for items… no one shows thier bank accounts or assets? why change it here?
by the way, i liked this GIF 
No other auction I’ve ever been part of requires bidders to prove they can afford, or declare what money they have, before they bid until it comes to paying for goods if won. If they can’t pay, they are banned from the auction house and the next highest bidder is offered the sale.
I don’t see why this suction on this site is any different.
It seems like things are moving away from the over inflation argument and turning into a witch hunt with the tone appearing that some believe they have the right to view others profiles.
No rules have been broken so i can’t see a problem here.
Do you honestly not see that people will use this function to cheat?
How about we look at it the other way and have all profiles PB hidden from public view.
Officials make the final decision at the end of an auction.
If the winner doesn’t have the PB to fund the sale they are kicked off the forum and the next highest bidder is offered the sale until someone takes the offer.
People need to have integrity, but then there will always be some with the tendency to cheat, that can happen all the time, so someone - in this case Anker Official has to adjudicate, i know it is a challenge,
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make it Crystal Clear is have the Solution implemented I suggested above with system deciding who has how many bucks and allow the user to bid
This must be achievable as i belive you can only bid to the value of PBs in the powerdraw.
Perhaps auctions here need to be configured as the powerdraw page is rather than just open comment in a thread?
Does that make sense @Shenoy?
Or as all this has been churned before. maybe Anker just doesn’t see all this as a problem.
That was how it was. Then the ability to hide profiles came in.
Around the same time, people got the option to get admin to change real name, avatar, etc, so they could, instead of hide everything for privacy reasons, just change their public name.
I am not even arguing for myself, it is just a sense of fairplay, I have not bid in the auctions for a while as I didn’t really want the item and sit back and watched. So I’m arguing about fairplay, not for me vs another. Rules, not winning.
It was just intended as a bit of fun, and all profiles were public when it started. As nothing was hidden it was naturally self-policed. For some reason I felt it was always @Tank who won but that’s a feeling so probably wrong.
To then push it back on admins to invent something which can be solved by simply removing privacy, is taking it way off the original intention.
Just make all PBs public and let it rip. Easy. Done.
Note: I’d probably not want to bid as the thing they auction I’d probably not want. So it’s about fair play, not winning.
This looks a better option, have it on PowerDraw kind of format, i think it falls more in line with the application discussed earlier, may be easier for Anker to implement.
I think as the forum has moved on and is a different and much bigger beast, Anker needs to review its old processes.
Just because it used to work doesn’t mean its fit for purpose now.
If Anker wants this to be a serious forum for the masses (800k plus members i think), maybe they need to take it seriously.
As you, I’m not debating for any personal reason.
I don’t care if hiding PB is fair or not, i can’t see that anyone who has cheated would win.
I don’t see why these auctions should be any different to any other auction I’ve ever participated in.
And why others believe its wrong for someone to make a choice about their profile while not breaking any rules in doing do.
I’ve been an espectador on past auctions and have noticed that some people over bid for the hell of it. Obviously their end goal is to have the winner spend more powerbucks and therefore drain their bucks account.
I think to combat that is to have any of ours mods review the auction at the end of it and whoever is deemed overbidding should be punished by having powerbucks taken from their account
Anyway guys its 00:48 here in the UK, i need to get some beauty sleep. 
Have a great night/day wherever you are.
Good call. Or just kicked off the forum.
That escalated quickly lol
Awesome suggestion there 
How do you punish a burner account?
866988 users
Only let levels 7+ bid? Something to lose?
The mods cannot be expected to solve this, they have day jobs.
The Admin can do some things. For example they can make a thread where hidden profiles cannot even reply, so those who choose to hide profiles cannot even enter an auction. In fact I could probably set that up, doesn’t look tricky.
Fair? Hidden profile users cannot participate in auctions? These look equally easy, Admins can make threads hidden profile users cannot reply within (no moderator effort) and users can remove the hidden profile (no moderator effort). All other options look too much effort and not worthwhile.
Well even though there are that many users in the forum, we know only about 30 people (give or take) are the ones who participate in the auction. So the mod or whoever can read the thread and decide who was overbidding.
That could work too
Inflating just for fun is 100% okay. The problem is if you inflate, but don’t have the bucks to back it up in case you get dumped with the bid.
Inflating just for fun… It is not fun, draining someone else’s PB 
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but again, that is a price to pay if someone really needs the auction item… Have to live with it 
It’s all in the strategy. This gives you a higher chance of being able to beat them next time, as well as a higher chance In the powerdraw 
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That being said, if you’re trying to have “fun”, then you could still get bitten if the other bidder drops it on you.