Amiga items on eBay -- advertising auctions on classiccmp

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Wed May 2 09:51:56 2001

Carlos Murillo wrote:
>
> 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.

The short answer is yes. The DNF (Discuss Newest Features) board has a
sniping contest at 22:22:22 PDT Ebay time and the highest I've seen is 39
posts in that one second. And to say again, sniping only works against
bidders who either do not know or are not willing to bid what an item might
be worth. I think that "stategy" you are talking about is just ignorance of
the system.
Received on Wed May 02 2001 - 09:51:56 BST