Auction — Alfie

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Alfie had a theory and the theory was: somewhere else. Somewhere else would have the answers, the clarity, the version of himself that had it together. He packed accordingly and went looking. Prague. Lisbon. That one town he can’t quite spell. Beautiful, all of it, and Alfie was there for every bit of it … along with all of his problems, which had apparently bought the same ticket and never once checked a bag. It took more cities than he’d like to admit before the pattern became undeniable. The problems were not geographic. Alfie is now looking inward, which is a shorter trip but considerably more uncomfortable. Early days. He’s working on it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

X-Large Scary Monster: 12.5" x 8" x 5.5"

acrylic paint, gold leaf, matte sealant finish

* hat and suitcase

One of a kind scary monster sculpture made with cone 6 white stoneware clay. Scary monsters are made from slabs of clay that are pushed and manipulated into their monster shapes. They are all fired in a kiln for 3 firings (thats 3 trips into the abyss of 2000+ degrees) depending on the final finish.

IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS:
- setting up an auction page:
  - duplicate this page
  - edit monster's name at the top of the page
  - edit form to set monster's slug asinput[type=hidden][name="SQF_ITEM"][value=SLUG>]
  - edit form to update submit CTA with monster's name
  - connect form to google sheet
  - add monster's slug, label, and reserve price to SlugMap in Google Sheet
  - rename first tab to FormRaw
  - change formatting for FormRaw:$D (BidAmount) from Number -> Automatic to Number -> Plain text
  - copy SlugMap from "Scary Monsters Auction" sheet into the new auction sheet, rename from Copy of SlugMap to SlugMap
  - copy Normalized from "Scary Monsters Auction" sheet into the new auction sheet, rename from Copy of Normalized to Normalized
  - copy PublicSummary from "Scary Monsters Auction" sheet into the new auction sheet, rename from Copy of PublicSummary to PublicSummary
  - IF CELLS ARE NOT CONNECTED: ensure tab names have "Copy of" removed and the formulas in row 2 have been refreshed (navigate to cell, hit ENTER key twice, then navigate to next column)
  - publish PublicSummary tab as TSV (Google Sheet -> File -> Share -> Publish to Web)
  - update script block with URL for TSV

TODOs:
- [x]: handle starting bid
- [x]: handle lastUpdated with no updates
- [ ]: update top bid on successful submission
- [x]: remove static content
- [x]: test multiple auctions running on same spreadsheet
- [x]: prettify page and UI
- [x]: clean up/comment out console.logging
- [ ]: test on small device/mobile

NICE_TO_HAVES:
- [ ]: user-friendly copy for error state when fail to fetch the auction bids (currently "Error loading data.")
- [ ]: prepoulate form with the current bid + increment
- [ ]: "remember" user by storing form values in a cookie
- [ ]: placeholder text/value for Current Bid while we're fetching

NOTES:
- form must be exactly the same to share a google sheet