intuition

Thanks for sharing the test result!

It is very odd that a maximum bid would not be accepted. My guess is that there wasn't any availability at the time of auction closing. I have a harder time believing more than 1 person bid maximum.

However, this is somewhat contradictory to other processes. There have been several reports where members are waitlisted for upgrade when AY at the same time is offering upgrade-for-cash on text-message. Since those are instantly accepted, it seems likely that AY reserves space for that process. So with logic, there should be reserved space also for bidding.

Then again, AY IT systems are not very consistent, illogical and pretty error prone. It might just be that the bidding process starts up automatically and does not check availability. And this problem is solved by programmer in the wrong end. When auction closes, the algorithm that chooses the winner has the availability check.