uturn

mine are still ringing from the $.05 that guy paid for 4 tickets to the LSU-Alabama game on www.uturnbids.com :cool:

Guys, this first round of auctions was a kick in the pants! Here is how the iPod Touch winner was selected. I'll include the summaries from our system up until the winner.


Amount Count
$0.01 8
$0.02 7
$0.03 10
$0.04 12
$0.05 8
$0.06 4
$0.07 10
$0.08 9
$0.09 9
$0.10 6
$0.11 13
$0.12 5
$0.13 7
$0.14 6
$0.15 3
$0.16 7
$0.17 6
$0.18 6
$0.19 7
$0.20 2
$0.21 3
$0.22 6
$0.23 9
$0.24 3
$0.25 3
$0.26 6
$0.27 7
$0.28 3
$0.29 7
$0.30 1 Winner
... {a bunch more here}

great question. If there are no unique bids, the winner is (stay with me here) -the first participant to bid the lowest bid amount duplicated the least amount of times.. Got It?

example:

10 people bid $10.13
2 people bid $17.55
7 people bid $ 5.01

The first member to have bid $17.55 wins. Even though $5.01 is lower it had 7 bids at that amount. Uturnbids.com time stamps each bid, so they know when and who bid what amount at precisely what time.

It actually is not a raffle because you have to PAY what you bid if you win. A raffle is pure random chance. Here you know how many unique bids are out there and what % complete the auction is, so you can better estimate where to bid. If you see the number of unique bids go up when you place your bids, you know you have a potential winning bid!

just ran into a bunch of kids that play for LSU at the PBS game. Beckwith, Hitt, etc. I have a great feeling about this game. they are ready