Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum, but not to Auction Sniper.
I have a couple of comments on this topic:
Regarding the question of whether enough people would make use of a contingency bid function - I have been using A.S. for years, and I never even knew that Bid Groups existed. I'm not complaining about that, because I could have looked around the website at any time. My point is that maybe more A.S. users would use Bid Groups if they knew it existed! Therefore, it only seems logical that if a contingency bid function were created, a whole lot of people would use it if they knew it existed. I mean, what a great idea! There's a lot of money to be made there.
To A.S. staff: Why don't you try a simple email to everyone telling of the existence of Bid Groups, and see what happens?
My second point: regarding Sara B.'s comment as to the difficulty of programming a contingency bid system - it's not likely to be any more difficult than creating the Bid Group function was. In fact, it's likely to be much easier because you're not reinventing the wheel.