On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> >From: "Will Jennings" <xds_sigma7_at_hotmail.com>
> >
> >I thought such things were in some way against Ebay's user agreement or
> >something? Just wondering...
> >
> >Will J
> >>
>
> The closest I could find was this below. I'm not sure if it
> pertains to auto bidding? I don't know what a robot exclusion header
> is??
In my mind this wouldn't really pertain to auto-bidding as the bidding is
going to happen anyway, right? If anything it will reduce the amount of
bidding as now people will set their high bid and have the software snipe
once rather than multiple times in the last minute or 10 seconds or ? of
the auction. At the same time it's interesting that you don't need to be
a user to commit some of the cardnial sins that it enumerates, so I guess
you can get around their legalities by just not being a user to harvest
auction data.
eBay is lame.
> 7.Access and Interference.
> Our web site contains robot exclusion headers and you agree that you will
> not use any robot,
> spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our
> web pages or the content
> contained herein without our prior expressed written permission. You agree
> that you will not use
> any device, software or routine to bypass our robot exclusion headers, or
> to interfere or attempt to
> interfere with the proper working of the eBay site or any activities
> conducted on our site. You
> agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or
> disproportionately large
> load on our infrastructure. Much of the information on our site is updated
> on a real time basis and is
> proprietary or is licensed to eBay by our users or third parties. You
> agree that you will not copy,
> reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any
> content (except for Your
> Information) from our website without the prior expressed written
> permission of eBay or the
> appropriate third party.
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