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Is CONTREBAS a broken egg? Time will tell!

I am not impressed! For the past few months I have been investigating the opportunity to adapt the lowest unique bid auction concept specifically for speaking people.

During the second trial sale (a variation on the limbo approach) a French citizen requested the DGCCRF to investigate the legality of the game (I really don't like that word, it is not a game it is an auction with a twist).

I indirectly heard from them today, henceforth I called off the 4th trial (which I hadn't initially planned and was a variant of the 2nd one which I wanted to use to confirm or infirm a hunch).

The result of the 3rd trial made me look at ways to make participation free in an economically viable way. It seems that if I want to be a French operator it will be the only way to go about it!

The one thing that pisses me off is that there are already plenty of operators outside France doing it the normal way = pay to bid, with a French interface. I believe I could do better but I am not sure how now :(