MoneyThing placing bids for lenders

Amazing service, thank you Things. 

I see that at least two requests have been made for MoneyThing to place bids for the Birkenhead loans, one specifically for B. I expect part B to all be gone in less than 30 seconds because of the high bid limit being used.

So when MoneyThing is placing bids, please commit to not placing bids either before a loan goes live or within the first 60 seconds of going live. Otherwise asking MoneyThing to place bids can end up as a way to beat the scrum and get invested when the chance of doing so otherwise might be low.

More generally, I'd much appreciate MoneyThing being able to place bids more routinely, since 4PM is approximately 3 hours before my normal waking time, pretty much the middle of the night for me. But is MoneyThing able to do that with any sort of scalability for both those who work nights and those whose jobs, perhaps on assembly lines, say, mean that they just can't be around at 4PM?

Later: mods kindly moved the posts from the staff only topic to this one, which is why you now see them before this post

In theory the bid limits should make it unnecessary to ask MoneyThing because there should be 24 hours to bid but we know that doesn't work as well as might be desired. In theory the person who can't bid on the Wednesday who made the request I linked to could just bid on Thursday at the time convenient for them instead of asking MoneyThing for help. But that would result in them getting nothing because the loans will fill way too rapidly for that to work.

Those who routinely have 4PM as a bad time to bid are actually more disadvantaged than those who only occasionally are in that position so I do like the idea of MoneyThing helping, just not the idea of it producing an advantage beyond what normal scrum participation would produce.

The first four posts of this thread have been moved or "merged" into this thread from the Staff Only one. When posts are merged they are ordered by date and time of creation, so they now appear, slightly confusingly, at the beginning of this thread.

I would make a plea for a pre funding set up. It works well on SS. I am one of the unfortunate ones who cannot be available at 4pm and can never get a slice of the pie. 

Seems wrong for MT to queue jump for some 'bidders' who've read that they can get their offer sorted in this manner tbh.

As said get the bid limit right and it should work just fine anyway.

Simplicity of MT and things happening when they should is what makes the platform for me - attempts to turn it into a sort of pseudo SS effort doesn't appeal.