Because of the tremendous power of the Steem Blockchain and the uber cool Steembay you've got a chance to get your hands on a limited set of 2017 Steem Trade Cards and actually profit from doing it!
Are You Curious? OK, Let's Get to the Details!
Let Me Answer These Questions:
- What are you actually bidding on?
- What twists have I created to determine the winning bids?
- What twist could help you profit from the auction that I've turned into a game?
1.) What Are You Actually Bidding On?
We are now in our second year of producing Steem Trade Cards. In 2017 we produced a set featuring 10 stars on this amazing platform.
We went on to print 25 physical cards of each recipient and we have no plans to print any more sets for 2017!
So far we've shipped cards to Nigeria, the Philippines, Panama, India, the Netherlands, The USA, Switzerland and elsewhere. The response has been nothing but positive!
Your 10 featured Steem Stars for 2017! What a distinguished group from homegrown blogging star to world renowned blockchain giants!
Here's a great review from 
What Twists Have I Created to Determine The Winning Bids?
Twist One:
Here's the fun part. The final sale price will be determined by the 5th highest bid. Once that has been established at the close of the auction the highest bid right through to the 5th highest can all purchase the cards for the low price.
Example:
Let's suppose that 
Twist Two:
Once all of these members have officially purchased a set by transfering the agreed upon price I will upvote their bids with my almost 55,000 Steem Power as follows:
- Highest bid 100%
- Second highest 75%
- Third highest bid 50%
- Fourth Highest bid 25%
- Fifth highest bid 10%
- Of course I will also give some upvotes to
as this project helps all of us!
But there's more!
Twist Three:
When you receive your cards. Make a post about it showing a photo of you with the cards and I'll upvote that post according to the same percentages that I show above! Please be sure to message me when you create the post so that I don't miss it! I will also have your post resteemed from our site 
What Could All of This Mean For You?
If you check my account you'll see that with my voting power at 85% a full vote would be worth $12.75! This means that you could end up with a set of cards and a profit to boot! How cool is that!
Here's How The Bidding Works (courtesy of @denmarkguy)
The opening bid will be 6.0 SBD
Reply (directly) to this post with "bid x" (where x is the amount you are willing to bid in SBD).
Decimals have to be written with a period instead of a comma (5.9, NOT 5,9). Wait for the bot to log in the bid (it will tell you in seconds if it worked... sometimes it takes up to a minute due to transaction failures of the system)
If someone bids higher than you, the bot will reply to your post and reference your username.
The bot will reply to each accepted bid, stating what is actual highest bid and who is the high bidder. The bot will also reply when you are overbid, and state the new high bidder.
If you need to retract your bid just enter "revoke bid"
"Normal" (non-auction) comments will not interfere with the auction, and will not make you a bidder!
Upvotes are welcome and accepted with gratitude as any rewards from this post will help cover the cost of this project. Please keep in mind that Steemtradecards is a make work project. We pay 10 Steem to the writer of each card, 15 Steem to the graphic artist for each card and we also pay to print and send a set of 10 cards to each recipient!
Shipping is FREE World Wide!
The cards are shipped form Ticino, Switzerland
Payment for winning bid will be in SBD. I will need the winning bidder's contact/shipping information, which we can either exchange via Discord or through Steemit.chat.
More Info About SteemBay
If you are interested in the @steembay project and would like to learn more about it please have a look at the tutorial which can be found here:
I hope that you enjoyed this article about Turning a SteemBay Auction Into a Fun Game Where You Can Profit!
Until next time,
@kus-knee (The Old Dog)