Feature Request: Conditional Group Bidding

[Guest]

## Feature Request: Conditional Group Bidding

I love Gixen and use its group bidding feature quite a lot. However, I think it could benefit from an additional type of grouping system.

My suggestion is a conditional group bidding feature that works as follows:

**If I win any item from Group X1, start bidding on every item in Group Y1.**

This would be particularly useful when buying multiple items from the same seller to save on shipping costs.

For example, I might want to buy one specific item from a seller, but I would also be interested in some of their other items if I could combine shipping.

The idea is that I first bid on the item I really want. If I win it, Gixen would automatically activate my bids on the seller's other items. This way, I could take advantage of combined shipping without having to pay the shipping costs for each item individually.

In short, I would like to be able to define conditional bidding groups, where winning an item in one group triggers bidding on another group.

This would be a very useful addition to Gixen's existing grouping system.

[Cupid]

This is pretty much how I've always said the current 'Contingency bidding' should work, not being the 'opposite of normal group bids' but enabling all the rest of the group unconditionally if the first item is won... does anyone have any use for the current one where bids are placed until one is lost and then no more ?

I do see this as a further extension to that though, your first group being primary items (with full shipping costs factored in to the snipe amount) and your second group being secondary items with reduced shipping costs factored into the snipe amounts. I can see merit in that, but its quite complex for users to understand how to use it. Wouldn't you also want the rest of your primary items bid on, at a higher rate, to take account of the lower shipping costs ?

Of course bid extensions are going to complicate this whole scenario because then we will get situations where the secondary items are due to be bid on when the first hasn't actually completed. Such cases are going to need some thought about how they should be handled, and I have a few suggestions about that if we ever get into a debate about it.
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Mark