Suggested Rules for auctions

[Ron Heartsong]

After reading all replies so far I would like to share my thoughts as well.

First I think there should be no rules because nobody should be forced into anything, most people are in SL to have fun en enjoy their time doing things they like to do. Instead of rules there can be ccoperation and agreements.
About the time schedule, I think we can compare auctioneers with DJ's and KC Sim owners with Club Owners. That's why I think that it would be better to have the timespots in the schedule controlled by simowners, and equally devided to the several sims. Beside that there could be a pool with auctioneers, every auctioneer has her/his own preferable working times, so if there would be a schedule with times that auctioneers are available, simowners would be able to see who is available and there can be an agreement between the simowner and the auctioneer. At the end the simowners are paying the tiers for the sim and have a responsibility agains the renters. Auctioneers are proffessionals who hire themself to the simowners, it should not be the other way around.

The second thing is overlapping auctions. I really think that a professional auctioneer should be able to finish an auction within an hour. Of course there can be exceptions, but if all auctioneers would respect the other auctioneers, just like they would be respected themselfes they would do everything to keep their auction time within the scheduled time, that is why there is an schedule after all.

But for me the most important thing is working together and not against eachother, the market is difficult at the moment, but only with good cooperation and agreements we can help eachother and help the community.