Yes I did, it was after last year's auction and a suggestion for this year - I suggested that, for items with a value put on them by a seller of less than a fiver, they should have a 'buy it now' section where the seller puts a fixed price on the item and it got sold, without the time consuming auction, to the first person who wants it at that price. Everyone wins ..
It relieves precious time for auctioning those items of higher value (which may still sell for less than a fiver), it opens up the auction to more quality lots, rather than closing it at 200 items, when a third of items are from someone who wants to auction the rubbish they found in the back of the bee shed for a pound,. It means that the auction is not going to go on until light stops play and the inevitable drift off of buyers as the day draws on, when the auctioneers are still trying to flog three Porter bee escapes for a quid at 4.30pm !
I'm sure the 'committee' had a reason for not adopting the suggestion - things move slowly in beekeeping and changing the format of something that has been established for many years needs a bit of courage - but when I hear the general criticisims that it's taking too long to get through all the lots and see the auctioneers looking pretty exhausted by the end of the event there is a good case to re-look at the format.
Even Ebay (the biggest auction site in the world) have a 'buy it now' option. It's not rocket science to organise.