Why can't we make minimum bid = instant bid auctions anymore?

[Knorva Gestalta]

It was awesome; if you were interested in the items of an auction you could just bid to get them, no need to wait 4 days to have some snipe bidding wars in the last 10 seconds or not have anyone bid at all (people bid more often this way).

Please bring it back.

[3xlneet]

Because that's not how auctions work. If you did that you basically were making a trade listing instead of an actual auction and if you want to be more careful with the snipping (as in what items are used), then we suggest you to change the IF.

[Knorva Gestalta]

9 hours ago, 3xlneet #ScrapTF said:

Because that's not how auctions work. If you did that you basically were making a trade listing instead of an actual auction and if you want to be more careful with the snipping (as in what items are used), then we suggest you to change the IF.

But people bidded more often in those auctions. Now selling hard to sell items (such as painted items), which is the purpose of auctions, is even harder.

Edited May 3, 2017 by A Terribly Charismatic Guy
Bad grammar

[Password1]

Is there an alternative to min=insta auctions that function the similar way?  (whether its here or on another website)

 

Being able to sell something like that while I was offline was incredibly convenient.  I tried getting familiar with backpack.tf and trade.tf to see if I could find something similar to what min=insta auctions provided, but they either do not exist or I was unable to find them.

Edited May 3, 2017 by Freak