Here’s the kicker. The auction house can get pretty wild. One minute you’re securing a great deal on a 2017 Ford GT. Next thing you know, the car gets bought out in the blink of an eye. You didn't even have a chance to react. Yea, that’s the auction house for ya. The guys that buy out cars at the last millisecond are called snipers. They're out to win auctions seconds before they close. Snipers are so fast at winning auctions that you don’t have enough time to try and out bid them. They seem to bid at the perfect time.

This seems to be a recurring issue in Forza Horizon 4’s auction house. Auction house users, including myself, run into these snipers. I’ve had multiple experiences where I was going to win an auction for a car. Then I get outbid and the auction closes. It’s so frustrating because I would love to get the chance to outbid the snipers. It feels like a battle I can’t win.

I’ve done some research and found out these snipers train themselves to be good at winning auctions. They’ve learned to get the timing down and even spend hours on end hunting deals to snipe. These snipers spend time finding cars for great deals, buying them at the last second, and  going back to resell the same exact car for a huge profit. It becomes a pain for individuals like myself. We’re just trying to buy a car and spend time driving it. Now we have to be on the lookout for these snipers.

It seems the best way to deal with these snipers is to learn their strategies and try to give them a taste of their own medicine. The challenge is getting the timing down. Next thing you know it, you’ve become a sniper. We end up spending a lot of our time trying to buy the car we want instead of actually enjoying the car.

I recommend a change to the auction house system. If the bids keep increasing in value, even after the original timer reaches 0 seconds, folks should be able to continue bidding till there’s one winner. This eliminates the issue of snipers who come in at the last second and snag an auction without a chance for anyone else to counter the snipers bid. 

My suggestion to fix the Forza Horizon auction house will make it as close as possible to real auction houses that take place in the world. Real life auction houses don’t have guys that snipe at the last second without anyone else to counter. Real auction houses lets bids come in and wait a few moments for someone else to offer a higher bid. That way it’s fair and everyone has a chance to win the car. Thus, the true winner of an auction is one who spends the most money, not the one who's the fastest at placing a bid.