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Thread: In Unsold Items "Winner" makes no sense.

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    Default In Unsold Items "Winner" makes no sense.

    Surely it should read "Highest bidder" instead, as the item didn't actually sell so nobody could be a winner on it.

    I know this probably means having a separate table for Unsold Items, but this is a professional site after all.
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    I know I'm probably being terribly slow here, I haven't had any tea yet but *where* on the site are you talking about?

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    The sold and unsold lists are filtered results from the Auctions I'm Running list. In the parent list the column does make sense. In the unsold the empty entry under the column means nobody won. It may be superfluous but I don't think it warrants a separate page just to get rid of it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by astral276 View Post
    The sold and unsold lists are filtered results from the Auctions I'm Running list. In the parent list the column does make sense. In the unsold the empty entry under the column means nobody won. It may be superfluous but I don't think it warrants a separate page just to get rid of it.
    There were bids but because they did not meet my reserve price they did NOT win the auction, yet here it says that they were the winning bidder. This does not make sense.

    If the text was changed from "Winner" to "Highest bidder" it would make sense for the Sold and Unsold displays. No need to make a separate page, most likely just a two minute job to change some text on one template file.
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    Quote Originally Posted by heatemyfather View Post
    There were bids but because they did not meet my reserve price they did NOT win the auction...
    Sorry. I thought you were talking about when there was nothing in the field. I never use Reserve so wasn't aware it placed a high bidder id there. My comment retracted.


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