Snipe S/W?

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Tue Dec 19 22:00:01 2000

John Tinker wrote:
>
> Sellam Ismail wrote:
>
> > Or do like I did for the Apple-1 auction at VCF 4.0: keep extending the
> > auction for fifteen more minutes after each new bid came in within 15
> > minutes of the planned closing time. The bidding actually went on another
> > 50 minutes or so before no more bids came in.
>
> Excellent idea. On-line it could be a shorter period, like 5 minutes, but it would
> let the price develop to its full potential.

Not an excellent idea as it caters to those people that can be online when
the auction closes and discriminates against those that can't.
Received on Tue Dec 19 2000 - 22:00:01 GMT