How about going the other way? Several online auctions are adopting an auction extension approach where the auction would continue a minimum of x minutes after each bid. I believe that this approach allows online auctions to behave more closely to live auctions. An online bidder would always have a chance to react to an outbid and decide whether or not to bid again. The sniping programs can still try to place bids as close to the end of auction as possible, but an online bidder would still have a chance to react instead of getting blindsided over and over again.
Bill -----Original Message----- From: MoPo List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J R Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 10:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MOPO] postscript - Stress Test Results Well, that was fun... now I have to go do my taxes, which won't be. But I have two notes on tonight's stress test: 1) Very funny foks, bidding Billions and Trillions of dollars in this test... what some people won't do for a $10.00 credit voucher... Of course, now we can never run another "stress test" again because the next time everyone will just type in 999 Trillion dollars as the maximum bid and only the first person to do it will have any chance of winning. Hmmm... I wonder what the server would do with, say, 100 bids... each of which had a entered a maximum of 999 Trillion dollars... no, I don't think I'll test that one. There is such a thing as pressing your luck... 2) It seems a lot of people really wish there was an auction sniper program that supported MPB. Well, what would you say to a sniping function that was BUILT IN to the MPB auction site? Sound interesting? ... it would be easier to use, more reliable, and cheaper than a third party sniping program would be -- and you wouldn't have to entrust your user name and password to anyone. A show of hands, please... :) Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
