diff --git a/Listing.cs b/Listing.cs
index efa3bb8..f53b4d2 100644
--- a/Listing.cs
+++ b/Listing.cs
@@ -18,16 +18,31 @@ namespace Buypeeb {
 			}
 		}
 
+		// any items with a getter will be saved to userdata.json
+		// anything that's configurable by the user, such as the custom name, should be saved
+		// the id *must* be saved!
+		// i'm also saving the original name to make it easier to tell what the items are in the userdata.json
+		// there's not really a need for it i guess but it's my program and i can do what i want
 		public string id { get; set; }
 		public string name { get; set; }
 		public int price = 0;
 		public int winPrice;
-		public string originalName;
+		public string originalName { get; set; }
 		public bool favourite { get; set; } = false;
-		// start_date, end_date
+		public DateTime startDate;
+		public DateTime endDate;
+		public DateTime lastUpdated;
 		public int bids;
 		public bool autoExtension;
 		public bool ready;
+		public bool available;
+
+		public bool updatedRecently {
+			get {
+				var later = this.lastUpdated.AddSeconds(15);
+				return DateTime.Compare(later, this.lastUpdated) < 0;
+			}
+		}
 
 		private bool success { get; set; } // TODO: custom setter that throws an exception if set to false or something idk
 
@@ -42,6 +57,7 @@ namespace Buypeeb {
 		}
 
 		public void Update(string html) {
+			// TODO: handle all the parsing errors and weird interpretation that could possibly happen here
 			var rx = new Regex(@"var pageData ?= ?(\{.+?\});", RegexOptions.Singleline); // TODO: maybe compile and match the regex in another thread
 			var m = rx.Match(html);
 			if (m == null) {
@@ -55,11 +71,20 @@ namespace Buypeeb {
 				j_full = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, string>>>(m.Groups[1].Value);
 			}
 			catch (Exception e) {
+				Console.WriteLine("oh jeez oh man oh jeez oh man oh jeez oh man");
+				Console.WriteLine(m.Groups[1].Value);
 				throw e;
 			}
 
+			var jst = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Asia/Tokyo");
+
 			var j = j_full["items"];
 			this.originalName = j["productName"];
+			this.startDate = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeToUtc(DateTime.ParseExact(j["starttime"], "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture), jst);
+			this.endDate = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeToUtc(DateTime.ParseExact(j["endtime"], "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture), jst);
+			this.lastUpdated = DateTime.UtcNow;
+			this.available = j["isClosed"] == "0";
+
 			this.success = int.TryParse(j["price"], out this.price);
 			this.success = int.TryParse(j["winPrice"], out this.winPrice);
 			this.success = int.TryParse(j["bids"], out this.bids);
diff --git a/MainWindow.cs b/MainWindow.cs
index dae84f8..241fd39 100755
--- a/MainWindow.cs
+++ b/MainWindow.cs
@@ -200,10 +200,14 @@ namespace Buypeeb {
 			Console.WriteLine($"{id} updated.");
 		}
 
-		private void UpdateItem(string id) {
+		private void UpdateItem(string id, bool force = false) {
 			// don't start a new task if there are more than [tasklimit] tasks currently running
 			// this makes sure we don't make 1000 simultaneous requests to yahoo auctions if there are 1000 items on the watchlist
-			this.settings.watchlist[id].ready = false;
+			if (this.settings.watchlist[id].updatedRecently && !force) {
+				// the item has been updated recently, and force is not true
+				return;
+			}
+
 			taskLimit.Wait();
 			var t = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => {
 				this.UpdateThread(id);
@@ -433,7 +437,22 @@ namespace Buypeeb {
 
 		private void RenderColumnEnding(Gtk.TreeViewColumn column, Gtk.CellRenderer cell, Gtk.ITreeModel model, Gtk.TreeIter iter) {
 			YahooAuctionsItem item = (YahooAuctionsItem)model.GetValue(iter, 0);
-			(cell as Gtk.CellRendererText).Text = item.ready ? "whatever" : "...";
+			string ending = "";
+			if (item.ready) {
+				var now = DateTime.Now;
+				var end = item.endDate.ToLocalTime();
+				// TODO: should we show the year if the auction ends next year? 0uo
+				if (end.DayOfYear != now.DayOfYear) {
+					// the auction isn't ending today, so we should show the day it's ending on for clarity
+					ending += end.ToString("MMM d ");
+				}
+				ending += end.ToString("HH:mm");
+				if (this.settings.displaySecondsInList) {
+					// add the seconds on to the end
+					ending += end.ToString(":ss");
+				}
+			}
+			(cell as Gtk.CellRendererText).Text = item.ready ? ending : "...";
 		}
 
 	}
diff --git a/Settings.cs b/Settings.cs
index 5bb0b50..1772f76 100644
--- a/Settings.cs
+++ b/Settings.cs
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ namespace Buypeeb {
 		public int favouriteUpdateInterval { get; set; } = 5 * 60;
 		public int updateIntervalCritical { get; set; } = 60;
 		public int favouriteUpdateIntervalCritical { get; set; } = 30;
+		public bool displaySecondsInList { get; set; } = true;
 
 		public Dictionary<string, YahooAuctionsItem> watchlist {
 			get; set;