Thursday, November 15, 2007  Canceled Auctions, or "Nobody Likes
You Anyway :P"  Non-Gamer's Guide to This Post  The auction
house is where players can sell items to other players for pre-
determined prices. Like Ebay, you can bid on an item, and
possibly be outbid by other players, or you can buy the item for
the buyout price, which is an optional price the seller can set
for the item, which is a guaranteed sale.  The Warcraft monetary
system scales up from copper to silver (copperx100) to gold
(silverx100). Like penny to dollar to a hundred dollars.   So
every now and then you'll find a great deal on the auction house
-- like a white kitten with a buyout of 7 gold and an opening
bid of 10 silver, and only one hour left to go. And you think,
"Dang, I bet I can get that low bid. This is so great!"  And you
get your hopes up for a cutie-patootey white kitten of your very
own (to resell, obviously), and what happens?  That's right.
Just before the auction is due to end, the seller hops on, sees
that he's about t