Okay here are my bids:

$20 Baseball (black box)
$60 CluClu Land (black box)
$50 Donkey Kong Jr (black box)
$40 Gumshoe (black box)
$35 Gyromite (black box)
$25 Hogan's Alley (black box)
$45 Ice Climber (black box)
$55.00 Kid Icarus (silver box)
$40.00 Metroid (silver box)
$20.00 Mach Rider
$45.00 Slalom (black box)
$20 Super Mario Bros. (black box)
$30 Urban Champion (black box)
$50 Wrecking Crew (black box)

I want to finish my BB collection!

$20 on zelda 2

No offense Brion, but you seem to be making this (way) more complicated than it need be.

The little side conversation really didn't have anything to do with the basics of the Auction.

I'll  Bid $18.00  on 1942

I have one big question. If I am going to bid on several items and they all end at once, How will I be able to bid at the last second for all of them? I mean they all end at the same time so several bids will flow in at once. When bidding at the last second it will be hard to look for all of the items last bid and post all of my bids. So what should I do?

Bid higher, earlier.

^Yep. This is one reason many here do not do a multiple item auction like this. There is no way to know if you're outbid in the last seconds, and so your only recourse is to bid high enough earlier that nobody will want to outbid you, or you can place another bid over your own on items you think you may lose on, though potentially only outbidding yourself and paying more than you'd have to.

Brion: My guess behind the fact that there is little clear definition behind the rules of Auctions is that this is not meant to be an ebay-substitute. Frankly, there's no need for it to be one, either, simply because sites like www.gamegavel.com... do that very well. This is meant to be sort of a fun alternative to the strict auctions of other sites when you don't want to go through the hassle of listing there and paying fees, and want a userbase bidding on your stuff who you know. If/when the NA Marketplace comes into being (that still the running name for it?), this section will close down. You're new here, so you wouldn't know this, but it's really just mean to be a temporary solution until that time. It's not meant to be perfect.

Nope didn't know about that, I guess that would take away all of the Auction and Buy Sell threads wouldn't it.. I understand.. I sort of thought (since I didn't know something else was being worked on) that this was what this section was to be and of course with that it would make sense to make everything as clear as possible for everyone...

This isn't going to work. All you would effectively be doing is pushing the close time of your auction back 30 seconds, so then people would just try to snipe in that window and the same frustration would take place. 

In my opinion just stagger the end times. If you are allowed to, just put next to all of the items an end time thats 5 min in between like:

Game 1 9:00
Game 2 9:05
Game 3 9:10

That way we have time to bid on each without it being confusing and we can know who won legitly!

Just a thought though!

Forget that. Lets just put in our final bids at the last second. Hope that the amount that you want to pay is the amount that you can get the item for and call it good. If you didn't have a ton of items to bid on that might be a decent idea.. with this much stuff I think the less confusion the better.

EDIT: Grammar

end time is set on all of the auctions.

People are getting frustrated with something new every time, so please, stop.

NO MORE MAKING UP RULES AS YOU GO ALONG! Especially since these items all end tomorrow.

The way I was thinking is that the 30 second bump in endtime would only effect those items that got a last bid within 30seconds of the end time all others would end at the specified time

OK well, I was writing all of that while other posts occurred before. So far consensus is leave it alone.. 

gotcha,
end time stands at 11:00 PM NA time tomorrow. No time extensions as it wasn't initially brought up when you posted.

Brion, I think it is time you stop changing your auction rules. They all end at the same time, and no time bumps.

No problem... You heard it guys... Since it wasn't there originally you will have to take your best shot at it.. I can agree with that...

Funny thing is nothing has changed.. it is all the same except for the grandfathering which really made no difference at all ... 

This is not true. All bids would still be made publicly. And the game would sell to the winner for $1 over the top bid from the second highest bidder.

Ummm. That is how it is currently as a bidder can bid $1.00, or more, than the last bidder and they will be on top and Win.. Allowing over a $1.00 incremental bid just cuts down on the total number of posts because it can be a jump from $40-$45  (1 additional Post) or it could be a jump as $40, $41, $42, $43, $44, $45 (5 additional posts) either way it is the same. Just takes longer at the $1 bids. I guess if you are really trying to get it at the lowest amount possible the $1.00 back and fourth would be the way to do it.

I just want to make comment on this as I know what nesguy is saying.. 

You are missing my point and not understanding what I'm saying. My point is that if you were to allow winning bidders to only pay just over the amount of the 2nd highest bid (like eBay), then you would encourage higher maximum bids from the buyers who really want a particular item. 

Jesus squeeze us! Please just bid. No more talking!