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Fritz 15 Help
Renting of a Cloud Engine with an auction
In this case you must pay the booking fee and the current rate for one minute.
The yellow symbol next to the engine signifies that the engine is being used by
another user. If you would like to use this engine for your own analysis you can try to
outbid the user. You can offer a higher rate than is being used with the menu Limits –
Max Rate.
If you are outbid the price rises automatically, like it does with Ebay bids. Starting
with the next minute the user is charged the higher price. If the other bidder
withdraws his bid, for instance by logging out, the price falls slowly back to the old
value.
If the user’s price is outbid he is given a warning and has to react. If he does not
increase his price the engine is unloaded after 20 seconds. The new user then pays
the higher price that he has offered. Even if the engine is unloaded fast it can take a
few minutes for the price to drop to the old level. This means that if there are
auctions for popular engines the prices are automatically higher.
Fees
At the end of the rental period the provider pays a transaktion fee of 2% to the
server.
If the provider merely unloads the engine, half of the price since the start of
processing the last main line is refunded.
When you bid against another user you have to pay the price for one minute to the
server even if your bid is unsuccessful. This is to prevent people making bids just for
fun.
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