What have you learned today?

[Dopplegagger]

I've learned that Turn 10 somehow magically fixed the high pitched engine whine that the Porsche Carrera GT makes IRL. It was missing when the PEP first launched, honest scouts honour

I was just about to call people on FM.net crazy about this. It sounds good to me.

 

[AMCNUT]

I learned to not fight the Xbox Live and Forza 4 deities when they tell me I can't race online... it only leads to frustration!

 

[IceMan PJN]

What I learned?

If you put a car up for 8 million starting and 10 million buyout, and then someone bids, it goes to 8.8 million, but you (as the seller) evidently don't get 8.8 million, but rather just 8 million. I had this happen, with 1.2 million in my bank just before receiving my credits from the sale, and then had 9.2 million after, even though the ending bid was 8.8 million. 8.8 plus 1.2 would of course be 10 but instead I had 9.2.

I didn't know since I've only sold a few unwanted duplicates for very low buyouts just to get rid of them so I always received the buyout and never a final bid value.

1. Yes.
2. If you've been outbid, click RECEIVE CREDITS and bid again. Sounds like you had a brain fart.

Thanks for covering that for me. I was afraid I'd have to read through a crapton of replies just to find out whether or not anybody got it.

Are you telling me you have to manually receive your credits and then rebid, as opposed to the system being smart enough to simply throw the additional funds into the pot? By the time I've received the credits, and am back in a position to make the next bid, surely, somebody else will have bid already.

It doesn't matter. It only takes a handful of seconds to go through those steps, in which time the auction cannot end. If it says "less than a minute remaining" and then I bid after you, it automatically and always adds an additional minute to the timer. It can remain on a minute remaining for an hour if we keep bidding. You will never, ever run out of time just because you had to receive credits first.

 

[doctorrg]

It doesn't matter. It only takes a handful of seconds to go through those steps, in which time the auction cannot end. If it says "less than a minute remaining" and then I bid after you, it automatically and always adds an additional minute to the timer. It can remain on a minute remaining for an hour if we keep bidding. You will never, ever run out of time just because you had to receive credits first.

I don't know how I feel about responding to a reply to a post that's over 3 month old, but anyway, of course it matters. Looking at the current 250 GTO market, for example, with low 8M buyouts all over, nobody wants to bid 8.3M on a 250 GTO (well, there are exceptions), and everyone wants to get the 7.6M bid in. If you make a 6.3M bid and have less than 7.6M left in the bank, there's no way in hell you'll be able to respond quick enough to get the 7.6M bid in if somebody outbids you with a 6.9M bid. Yes, it's the general case, and doesn't apply in all cases, but it is true nevertheless. So yes, it does matter.

If you put a car up for 8 million starting and 10 million buyout, and then someone bids, it goes to 8.8 million, but you (as the seller) evidently don't get 8.8 million, but rather just 8 million. I had this happen, with 1.2 million in my bank just before receiving my credits from the sale, and then had 9.2 million after, even though the ending bid was 8.8 million. 8.8 plus 1.2 would of course be 10 but instead I had 9.2.

It's because 8 Million is what they've bid with their starting bid, after all, it did start at 8 Million. 8.8 Million is merely what you've got to put in for the next bid.

 

[saskman1950]

Bidding on an $8 mil car seems about right. When I fist started the game, I had a guy want $3,500,00 to unlock a tune. WOW, I only had about 50 cents.