Your code is fine!  I would not know how to change it anyway.  I just did not find your 'description' of Bid Agent and did not want to make an assumption.

I just needed to fully understand so I could describe to bidders so there would be no problems.

Thanks for looking into it!

Help!  I still see a problem and can not understand fully.

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Similiar problem. Example: User 1 bids 10.00 dollars. Increment on item is 5.00 dollars. Starting bid is 5.00. Item now shows high bid 5.00 bid minimum 10.00. User 2 now using bid increment bids 29.00. Item now shows current bid 15.00 next min. bid 20.00. So far so good.
=>>>Note<<<= User 1 now bids 31.00. Current bid now shows 34.00 next min. bid 39.00. Current bid is 3.00 higher than User 1 wanted to pay. User 2 comes back and bids 50.00. Current bid now shows 36.00. Next min. bid 41.00. 36.00 is 5.00 higher than actual last highest bid but looks like only a 2.00 increase from the 34.00.

Bid History  

Bidder Date - Time Bid  
user2 01.11.06 - 16:34:26 $36.00      
user1 01.11.06 - 16:33:34 $34.00      
user2 01.11.06 - 16:32:43 $15.00      
user1 01.11.06 - 16:31:39 $5.00  


Hope you could follow that. Any help appreciated.
Thanks
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==== Dieter Werter reply ====================
The proxy-bid of user1 has been stored at: 34.00
The high-bid was: 15.00
The increment is: 5.00

=<<Note>>= user2 bids: 36.00  
36.00 is > 15.00 + 5.00 (so the bis is valid)

The proxy-bid (34.00) is > 15.00 + 5.00 (so it is valid too)
Both of them are > 15.00 + 5.00 and so both of them are valid but 36.00 is > 34.00 and so the bid of user2 beats the proxy-bid of user1.

See the code of: sub proc_bid
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==== *My comment: ====
I do not want to be controversal but I still can not understand the process.

Your reply = "user2 bids: 36.00"

I still see a conflict/problem somewhere.  Gscotty states that "user2 physically bids $31.00" - not $36.00.

The script creates a situation that has the user2 bid recorded as $3.00 MORE THAN his intended $31.00 Maximum bid ($34.00).

What am I missing?
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