OK — I’ve just coded it so that you can offer your items by auction or by lottery. You’ll see a new field on your stocking page called “Stock type” and I think it actually works, lol.
You can set your auction/lottery to run as long as you want. You’ll need to identify what items are lottery or auction in your title, so it’s obvious to the customers.
Lotteries allow the customers to enter a drawing to see who gets to purchase the item. The code automatically tracks the entrants and chooses the winner at the end time.
Auctions are much like eBay auctions, with proxy bidding. The main difference is that they end at your set end time *or* 2 minutes after the last bid. This prevents sniping and is more like a real-life auction.
The lottery and auctions will stay in your in-stock store for 30 days past the end time, or until you change preview to 0. That’s so the listing doesn’t just disappear when the it’s over, leaving your customers wondering who won.
Please note — the lottery and auction codes have been tested pretty extensively now, but there’s always a chance something weird might happen. Please let me know if something goes awry.
Also — ** I will be out of internet contact from 7/15-7/24 ** If your payment is about to expire and you’ll be wanting to stock next week, you need to send Paypal before Friday. Otherwise it will have to wait until the 25th.
Thanks so much for using HC!