Amiga items on eBay -- advertising auctions on classiccmp

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Wed May 2 07:24:36 2001

At 01:13 PM 4/29/01 -0400, Tony Eros wrote:
>Yeah, but in much the same way that the phone knows when you're taking a
>bath, my cable modem knows when I'm planning to snipe and on at least three
>occasions decided to start resynching with the network about a minute
>before the end of an auction I wanted.

Yes, it has happened to me too. Another strategy that
is beginning to become commonplace is "last-minute flooding",
when a bidder will send 10 or 20 bids with the smallest value
increment within the last 10 seconds or so of the auction.
I wonder if this can actually block out other last-second
bidders or if eBay has an adequate receipt-time-stamp/post-processing
bid evaluation system.

Carlos.

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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Wed May 02 2001 - 07:24:36 BST