From: kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no   
      
   Mark McDougall wrote:   
   > Knut Roll-Lund wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>No hard feelings. It is all part of the game, sniping, dinking etc., but   
   >>- I think I'm entitled to whine though :-).   
   >   
   >   
   > I still, for the life of me, do not understand why eBay doesn't   
   > implement the rule that the auction does not end for, say, 10 mins after   
   > the last bid (after the closing time). This is done on other auction   
   > sites and would completely eliminate sniping altogether - hence fairer   
   > for buyers - and IMHO is also much fairer for the seller.   
   >   
      
   Then it should work like a normal auction where you bid what you bid and   
   will pay what you announced.   
      
   The eBay scheme favors the buyer. First there is a timelimit that limits   
   how high the price can go and secondly it is the second highest bid that   
   decides the ending price...   
      
   But if it favors the buyers then why do people sell there? Attracting   
   many buyers push the prices up, so it gains the sellers also.   
      
   So why is eBay so? I think it came about like this because not many had   
   broadband back when it started, they phoned in to their isp and couldn't   
   be online for 10+10+10+10+10 minutes without it costing something so   
   they needed some way to avoid people to be online for a longer time.   
      
   What I don't like is the robots, like StealthBid, doing the bidding. I   
   would suggest they implement the password by image thing to do away with   
   the robots.   
      
   Bidding less than 5 seconds before the end manually (unless you was   
   outbid 3 seconds ago) is bad taste but should be allowed, in my opinion.   
      
   I suggest we discuss TRS-80 matters instead of eBay. I have started to   
   think about how to port some of my old programs to model 4 and that new   
   hires. New toy, wow I'm looking forward to this. :-)   
      
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   Knut   
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