[R-390] Re: R-390 Digest, Vol 39, Issue 49

[Michael Crestohl]

There's one difference:

At a live auction if you advance the bid the auctioneer must allot 
more time to
the auction for another bidder to come forth.  That's why the "going....going
...gone ritual.

On eBay there is not.  The auction ends precisely at the stated time.  Thus a
snipe bid with two seconds to go leaves little opportunity for 
another bidder to
place a bid.

It would be more realistic if eBay were to extend auctions beyond the stated
ending time by a minute or two when this occurs and only end an auction when
no further bids are received during that interval.

This would eliminate sniping completely.

I wonder why they don't do it.  I am sure that this scenario has been proposed
to them ever since the beginning but this has not changed on the 
nearly 12 years
that ePay has been up and running.

73,

Michael, W1RC


At 05:13 PM 7/31/2007, Dan Arney <hankarn at pacbell.net> wrote:
I hate sniping also. but sniping is the digital way of waving the paddle
at a live auction,..going nce,,... going twiicee ,...going threeeeti
waving frantically repeat after me .PUT UP OR SHUT UP.