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Dutch Auction problem

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First Post Posted on: 07-25-11 09:30 AM

I thought I already posted this and now it seems to be gone. Anyhow, I have noticed several dutch auctions on my site from different users that do not have any amount as the purchase price which means the system is somehow allowing them to post auctions with zero as the price. Please advise on how I can fix this problem.

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Reply #: 1 Posted on: 07-25-11 01:38 PM

The system anyway does NOT allow a ZERO price to be entered. But the user can enter a value like 0.0001 and the system accepts it and this is normal if the user is selling trivial items for such prices in dutch auctions. However the system will format the display as 2 digits decimal only like 12.34 and will remove any extra decimals after the second one from the display only and it is in the system and bids calculated based on it so the value 0.0001 or 0.001 will be cut as 0.00. If you still nees to display these extra decimals in your currency you can edit manually the cgi files ParseItem.pm, Main.pm lines that looks like this:

&Format_Digits(sprintf("%.2f", $Item{Start_Bid}));

Change it to

&Format_Digits(sprintf("%.4f", $Item{Start_Bid}));

of whatever decimals you want

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Reply #: 2 Posted on: 07-25-11 04:41 PM

Hi Ahmed,\ \ I just tested the dutch auction myself and it does allow 00.00 which produces a zero price, but it also allows this in regular auctions too. Even a simple .0 works for producing a zero price auction. Yet, I think there is more than this going on with the dutch auctions because I have two different users with zero dutch auctions and it seems strange they would do this on purpose since there is no promo in their auction (and I don't have any regular zero auctions). Anyhow, I will contact them both and find out what produced this zero bid in their cases and get back to you on it. In the meantime, what I can I do to the code to eliminate the ability of someone to enter .0 or .00 or 00.00, etc. to produce a zero price auction?