I think if eBay were to remove the word Auction from anything they put out
the issue might go away. It is really an online store, not an online
auction. Auctions don't come with Buy it Now and fixed end times. So,
perhaps they should just change everything to snipe bidding or just have
people post things for sale. It would remove the pretense of an auction from
the equation.
Dan
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From: "Merle Sprinzen" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:35 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Sniping software
But if you were willing to pay more than $200 if there was a bit higher,
then you should put that higher bid into the snipe program. If you put
the truly highest price you're willing to pay into the program you'll
never lose on an item you were willing to pay more for.
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:25:53 -0500 "s.l. rexrode"
<[email protected]> writes:
Sniping is common practice because I feel eBay has set things up
this way. Years ago, I suggestedto eBay that they conduct their
auctions more like real life auctions. This could easily be done if
eBay wouldextend an auction 5 minutes if any bid came in during the
last 5 minutes of an auction (or "x" number of minutes).This would
simulate real auctions by the common practice of the
"going...going....gone" method of selling.Bidders could still bid up
to their maximum and I feel the seller would get the best price this
way. Perhaps if eBayinstituted this method of selling, most of the
bids would come in at the end, but then again many eBay auctionssee
a flurry of activity at the end. If I bid, say $200 (whether on
eBay or a live auction) and the next bidder came in at $201, chances
are I would consider bidding $202 (or higher) depending upon how bad
I wanted that item. Attimes, it would be nice to have a second (or
third) chance at something.....on eBay that is.
Lee
Rexrode
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