What an interesting response. Sometimes I forget I'm living with a couple generations that have grown up online, and have very probably never even been to a Real Life auction. They think the Ebay way is the way auctions work.
If you've actually been to some rl auctions, and they've all had different rules, can you tell us if you've ever been to one where the auctioneer used a timer and whoever placed the last bid before the bell rang won the item? Even if other people were bidding? I've just never heard of any such nonsense until Ebay came along and seemed to base their software around an absolute timer. On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:55 AM, gerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i don't know what is an RL auction. there are many types of auctions. this > eBay system is one of the common ones. > > each auction i have ever been to has had a set of rules, but there does not > seem to be a standard set of rules. > > At 11:48 PM 8/24/2008, you wrote: >>Of course, this is an absurd way to run an auction. No RL auction >>would ever take that $51 bid without asking for more. Seems like there >>should be a simple way to solve the problem via software, such as >>extending an auction if a bid is received within the last x seconds. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
