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STS-134
You can easily add contingencies to the app. I bid $X if I can get on flight Y. A pax could submit several bids, up to a "no contingencies" bid. So I might bid $200 if I can get on a flight that leaves 2 hours later, $1000 for a flight that leaves the next morning, up to a completely non contingent offer of either $5000 cash or a R/T F ticket to Asia.
There should be no IDBs, only VDBs. Everyone has a price at which he or she would get off the plane. A few probably wouldn't get off for anything less than $1000000. That's fine, let them bid $1000000. The airline will pick someone else who bids lower.
At that point it is simpler just to use the current process of asking for volunteers at the gate.
The issue isn't with how airlines currently ask for volunteers, the issue is with the amounts they are offering compared to what people are willing to accept in exchange for the disruption. The solution isn't complex, the solution is just to up the numbers.