Yeah like say you were one second from getting your dream pixpet and you think you got it so you logged of, but it turns out someone else got the egg. I think that pixpet could fix this by making it so 10 second before the auction ends you can't bid on it.
I also want to point out it can be really annoying when for you a action might end at, lets say, 2:00 am but for someone else it ends at, 9:00 am and you don't want to pull an all nighter for a online gamebut you want your pixpet, its not fun.