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The main reason is that we don't want to have an E-bay style bidding market.

Primarily to piss my roommate off

What is:

... an E-bay style bidding market?

where people wait till last second to bid like crazy. Not sure if it's still the same right now. Maybe not because they have auto-bidding right now.

But they used to wait till last second to bid for an item. I even heard cases of scripting to get the last bid.

The main reason is that the player should go for the Manager who gives more money for him, and not for the one who is quicker or with better Internet connection.

The extension definitely should be there, however I believe that if a person has not even bid once before the original auction time expires they should not be allowed to join the bidding afterwards. I have been in situations where I have been still bidding on a player 30 minutes after the initial time expired when suddenly 2 ir 3 new bidders enter the auction. You should not be able to show up llate and still get into the bidding.

How you would recognise what was original auction time? That would lead to making a bid in last minutes (preferably with 2:59 to go) to prevent other from joining the auction and to confuse them. In addition it would be purposelessly difficult to distinguish between original time and new deadline which could happen to be only few second different very easily.

Most importantly a) prizes could go unnaturaly higher because people would like to bid "in time" b)auctions could be decided in few first hours worse minutes and it would be more about who would find the player soon enough which is not fair for not hardcore users and users with different time than seller. And could be more abusive too, (this is assuming a fix reasonable prize of a player and that nobody would overbid significantly)
or even c) everybody would bid in last minutes which could cause troubles when 10 people bidding at the same time with the same bid (this could happen now too but you can be more relaxed knowing if someone would make a bid you have +3 minutes, there is currently no fixed deadline to make a bid)

having the three minutes gives more room for psychology. You could minimum raise for a few bids, then let it run close to the three minutes and go in 10 x minmum bid higher to try and p1ss the other guy off etc. If all you are doing is minimum bidding, you are not using the full array of negotiating tactics available to you

That's not about me. That's common. And that's motivated by paying only necessary amount of cash. And it is forbidden to overbid above certain value (to prevent abusive transfers of money). After all it all about humans.

Plus daytrading will be more effective because you can just chip in and buy low priced players more often.

Then I would like to concur with the original poster ;-)