I was the high bidder on this auction: http://www.forumwarz.com/auctions/show/81519-tom-cruise-in-actual-closet-8211-night-vision-pic-ogle

It is for a scandalously rare file, that at least three people were willing to part with millions of flezz for. I don’t believe anything in this auction was abusive, I just wanted that file and I was willing to pay what it took to get it.

Now, the suggested procedure for this is “submit a bug report”, and ET will fix it. But I’ve done this a couple of times: Once, when I was the seller I got my flezz from the auction closed for abuse, and once when I was the buyer guilty of “Bidding too much” I didn’t get any response at all (it’s been over a week.) The one time I did get a response, I made a thread about it here and Banhammer said he would bump it along up to the top. The other time, I made no thread and nothing ever came of the report.

Is there a better way to ensure that these “erroneously closed for abuse” auctions, than complaining about them on the forums in order that a moderator reads the read, and agrees to forward your bug report to ET? If there’s not, consider this “that thread that says: “Dear Moderator, I really want my Tom Cruise file and I’m more than willing to pay 2.8m flezz or whatever the winning bid ended up being.”

Alternatively, can we just make the abuse filter a little less draconic? I’m often afraid to bid what I’m willing to pay for certain files that are rarely on kyoubai, for fear of having my flezz confiscated and getting nothing back.

I don’t believe the abuse filter is working correctly. This isn’t people bidding tons and tons of flezz for a birdhouse or a marble, this is people bidding for a file that they have no way of obtaining for themselves short of kyoubai, and there are very few of them in the wild.

tl;dr: I am partially blinded with rage, I would like my Tom Cruise file.