[bluemario]

Auction mechanics are genuinely underused in the digital goods space. We've been building a marketplace on Solana and debated adding auctions for a while. The thing that stopped us was the UX complexity around "auction ending soon" notifications and bid sniping behavior. Did you end up implementing any anti-sniping logic (like auto-extending the auction if a bid comes in the last 30 seconds)? That's the single feature that makes or breaks trust for buyers who lose to a last-second bot.

Also curious how you're handling the edge case where a buyer wins an auction but doesn't complete payment. With physical goods especially, that creates real headaches for sellers. Stripe's authorization-hold flow can help but it's clunky to explain to non-technical sellers.

The buy-it-now alongside auction is the right call btw. eBay's data on this is old but the pattern of "auction with BIN escape hatch" consistently converts better than pure auctions for sellers who just want to move inventory.