There are still lots of improvements that can be made, many improvements are listed in this thread: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/6307801324



Although some of the points mentioned there are being addressed, there are other functionality features that would be great to have!



That said, many players already complain about items being "sniped" off the auction house at the last second, and allowing to sort by time remaining will only increase the frequency at which this happens, thus increasing player frustration. The ability to sort on time remaining should NOT be added.



You realize how easily this concept is right now though don't you?



Lets say I search for an item that has Vitality, Strength, and Cold Damage.

I up the amounts of Vitality and Strength to the highest I can find.



There are 3 items that show up that are all awesome.

Those 3 items also have 1D12H left on them.



I write them down, come back in 35 hours and find them again.

Watch them for around 20-30 minutes.



Bid around the 5 minute mark.



Items are mine for bid price now.



The only thing they did was make it easier to initially find the item.



If you do not want people to be doing this and feel that you get ripped off.

Simple. When you bid on the said item, put your "BID" amount insanely high. You get the item and what money was left over comes back to you.

Bid Option



I've seen many players complain about items being sniped off the auction house at the last second after they had the winning bid for several minutes or hours. I've also seen the suggestion to increase the time remaining on an item before it expires so more bids are allowed to prevent items from being sniped.



Suggestion: If an item receives a bid within the last five minutes (five is just an example, it could be more or less), then the time remaining is bumped up to five minutes. This allows people to keep bidding on the item without extending the time remaining indefinitely, it prevents items from being sniped at the last second, allows the seller to make some more money than they would if the buyout amount is not reached, and Blizzard can collect more gold or money from the transaction.



Suggestion: If a bid is placed within the last five minutes (again, five is just an example), future bids can only be placed by players who have previously bid on the item. This way if several players are engaged in a bidding war, one of them is guaranteed to get the item, and they only have each other to compete with rather than the whole community.

I have no idea what your random quotes are about, but it seems you are trying to say a solution to the problem I mentioned.If that's the case, you misunderstand my post and what people are complaining about when they talk about items being "sniped" off the auction house. The problem is not that someone posts an item with a starting bid of 10k and a buyout of 100k, one person makes a bid for 10k and the seller only gets 10k because nobody else bid on it or bought it out.The problem is that when you make a bid on an item, that bid is the winning bid for however long, and then you are checking up on the bid in the final minutes and when time remaining is <1m, someone makes a slightly higher bid, and before your screen updates to say the amount of the new bid, time has expired and you were winning a bid for however long and got beat out at the last second.In the thread I previously linked to (here it is again: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/6307801324 ) I posted two possible solutions to avoid this from happening. Here they are.