so the issue is with the speed of indexing the datastores? ig that makes sense but again doesn’t roblox have a service specifically made for stuff like this called memorystores which are a lot faster if a bit less reliable from my experience
basically for my non roblox programmers (i envy you) memorystores are fast temporary storage that work essentially the same way as datastores, but each key has an expiration limit. in this case the expiration limit would just be the length of the auction, and if there’s some complicated stuff with like adding to the time after a bid you can do some math with unix time to figure out when it should expire
ig the caveat is that like i said they are less reliable, they will fail some calls every once in a while but there are enough items and they work enough of the time that it should not be an issue. its not worth rescripting all of that though if it already done so whastever