Auction functionality

I would like to opt for the Open Ascending-bid type auctions. We're maintaining a special wine selections website (in dutch) which requested such an auction for limited edition bottles.

In our case, users are not registered (besides users who actually have made a purchase) so the action should pretty much be anonymous.

Also when the auction is closed (automatically or manually) the user who gets to get the item should be (automatically?) notified I think.

We just implemented a Comments cookie that remembers anonymous comment posters' information.

Also with Comments we have something to notify of any follow-up. I suspect any user would like to know about any overbiddings. I have seen automatic overbidding implementations to a certain amount, but then I guess users would have to be able to turn this off. Again, this might be done within a cookie I suspect.

Anonymous bidding sounds like a bad idea to me. Eventually, the session ids will expire, and if that happens before the winner has paid, they'll never be able to.

That's true. However session cookies can set to last longer than the auction lasts. Also, I would suspect the winner should be notified by e-mail with directions on how to 'claim' his item (Like notify-on-followup, relies on the e-mail addresses in the database, not on a session id).

I know Ubercart creates a user account the moment a user has made a purchase. I suspect if users are to register in order to participate in auctions, their user accounts will have to work for any 'regular' purchases as well.

I don't know about any technical implications concerning Ubercart. It's just that I like websites that allow me to place bids anonymously, which for me, lowers the barrier to participate.

I love ubercart. When do you think this module will be done for ubercart.

Since we aren't using the issue tracker for feature requests, can this discussion be moved to the forums? I think you'll get much more community feedback there in the short and long terms anyways. Mark to fixed when you post a link to the thread on Ubercart.org.

I have been wanting an auction script for a while. After searching I found my favorite to be auction pro bid. http://www.phpprobid.com/ I was hoping that auction functionality would be in this version of ubercart...I accidently cam e across this thread and am so excited. please let me know how long it would take to program a module with these features. I would prefer to go with a drupal compat module instead of a outside software for sure. Thanks!