[R-390] R-389 Sold For $3550.00 on eBay

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

> Extending the running time for a couple of minutes after a late 
> bid is received is not a huge problem in programming, so why 
> won't ebay do it?

I'm just curious, Andy, how many late bids would you want them to allow 
extending the auction? If each late bid extended the auction by 5 
minutes, and near the end of each extended auction, someone else bid 
late, extending the auction another 5 minutes, when would it stop? At 
an arbitrary time set by Ebay? Someone could take advantage of this 
and the auction would never end.

There is at least one seller on Ebay who ends his auctions at an 
abitrary time set himself in order to discourage sniping. He says this in 
each auction. Apparently Ebay has never even questioned him about 
this. His feedback rating is quite high, and all are positive.

Personally, I find nothing wrong at all with sniping, neither from a 
seller's, nor a buyer's standpoint.

Ken W7EKB