ebay question

From: Marvin Johnston <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Wed Feb 25 10:41:12 2004

"Peter C. Wallace" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, David V. Corbin wrote:
> >
> > > Personally, I wish that the auction would be more like a real world one
> > > where the auction ended (after a suitable startup delay) when not bids had
> > > been placed for a specific interval (30 minutes?). This would more
> > > accurately reflect a "real world" open auction. IMsnHO.....
> >
> > And that's exactly how the Vintage Computer Marketplace works.
> >
> > "Snipe-Proof Auctions"
>
> Yes, Ebay's allowing sniping is really kind of sleazy, You think its a real
> auction with some idea that the visible bid prices mean something when in fact
> by allowing sniping its really a sealed bid auction... Sleazy

I think you are talking about the proxy bidding when you refer visible
pricing meaning something; it is meaningless except to say that someone
has made a bid. Sniping is not sleazy, but rather the only intelligent
approach to the stupidity that takes place on ebay. I'm not sure it
makes any difference on other sites.
Received on Wed Feb 25 2004 - 10:41:12 GMT