"A Day Late and A Dollar Short" --- Ebay?

So, last week we had an auction at school. It was supposed to show us the important values of capitalism ex. us the buyers and the proctor the seller, which is how life in America usually works (people buying and people selling stuff to earn money). I think that the auction was sort of a good idea, the things were limited and honestly to me the items were not worth the labor. My experience was not all it could have been since my credit process was messed up on an account of bad computer reception.
I think that the E-bay simulation was also a bit of an overkill, because i think the auction was good enough and just about the same thing. Even though I wasn't given the credits i was supposed to receive, i got the gist of the simulation. I think it would have been better if there were a lot more things to bid for and if there were more things that the majority of the bidders were interested in.

I think it also would have been netter if we had a better more generous source of money or a longer amount of time to gather the money. For example Like in the real world if you bet or want or buy something that you wanted you usually are able to earn money for a while and you wont buy anything unless you are sure you can pay for it. Whereas in the auction we only had a limited time to earn our "money" so if we wanted more time we didn't have it. I think it would have been better if we had a longer time to experience the class auction. As fir the E-bay assignment, I was not able to do it. My mother which is my source of money since i don't have a job, did not agree or take well to the idea of buying something for an assignment. It was made clear that you could bid on something small in order to conserve money but there was also the large possibility that someone else would bid against you and in the end the price would have gone up greatly. My mother didn't like that possibility. Honestly I think that the auction in class was enough and E-bay would have been another excuse to spend money.