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Important Siebel eAuction System Preferences

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You may want to update the following System Preferences for your Siebel eAuction site. If you do not want to make any changes, you can simply use the default System Preference settings.

Bidder/Lister Approval

You can determine if you want to automatically approve bidders as users of your eAuction site. You can also automatically approve listers for your site. If you choose not to automatically approve bidders or listers, you must manually define user responsibilities or define a workflow to do so.

The default for automatically approving a bidder is TRUE, and the parameter is eAuc:AutoApproveBidder.

The default for automatically approving a lister is TRUE, and the parameter is eAuc:AutoApproveLister.

AutoBid

AutoBid allows Siebel eAuction to place a proxy bid for a bidder so the bidder does not have to constantly monitor the auction. AutoBid is an automated process in which a bidder inputs a current bid and the highest bid amount (English auction) or lowest bid amount (Reverse auction) the user is willing to pay. The automated AutoBid process then changes the bid to the next best winning bid as other subsequent bids are received, up to the point where the system reaches the maximum (English auction) or minimum (Reverse auction) bid for the user.

The AutoBid feature is not available when using Dutch, Vickrey, or Sealed-bid auctions.

The default setting for allowing AutoBids in your eAuction is TRUE, and the parameter is eAuc:AutoBidToReservePrice.

Tie-Breaking Rules

Timestamp options allow you to determine the timestamp a replacement bid will get. Allowing a replacement bid to retain an earlier timestamp gives that bid a timestamp advantage. A timestamp advantage results in:

Bids with a timestamp advantage having only to meet, rather than exceed, a competing bid with a later timestamp.
A bid with an earlier timestamp winning an auction when two bids are competing for the same items at the same bid amount.
An activated AutoBid with a timestamp advantage having the bid amount raised to match, not exceed, the amount of a later competing bid.

As an administrator, you can set the timestamp option to one of the following:

Option 1: Users who have prior winning bids have their follow-up bids time-stamped to the time of the prior winning bid.
Option 2: Users who have placed any prior bid have their follow-up bids time-stamped to the time of the prior bid.
Option 3: AutoBids retain the timestamp of the original bid. Tie-breaking rules should be set by the global administrator and should be applied site-wide.

The default timestamp option is 1, and the parameter is eAuc:BidTimeTieBreakOption.

Timestamp Advantage

The eAuc:AllowTimeStampAdvantage property allows you to determine if any advantage will be given to a bid based on when the bid was made. The default setting for allowing a Timestamp Advantage is TRUE. The eAuc:BidTimeTieBreakOption setting determines what timestamp a bid receives.

When eAuc:AllowTimeStampAdvantage = TRUE, a bid with an earlier timestamp only has to meet the bid amount of a competing bid with a later timestamp.

When eAuc:AllowTimeStampAdvantage = FALSE, a bid's amount must always try and beat another competing bid's bid amount—regardless of each bid's timestamp.

In either case, if there are competing bids with the same bid amount at the close of the auction, the bid with the earlier timestamp wins.

User Ratings

Auction listers can be rated on how effectively they interact with other users. From the Auction Item Detail screen, you can view ratings for an auction lister. Ratings range from 1 (Poor) to 3 (Excellent).

You can define the number of times users can rate each other. The default number is 2.

The System Preferences parameter for the number of times users can rate each other is eAuc:MaxRatingsPerSale.

User Ratings can be deleted only at the database level, not from the Siebel eAuction interface. They can only be deleted directly at the database level.

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