[R-390] Snip bidding

[Steve Hobensack]

If one is mainly a buyer like me, You don't want this to happen!
....Steve...N8YE

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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:56:11 -0400
From: Michael Crestohl <W1RC at Verizon.net>
Subject: [R-390] Re: R-390 Digest, Vol 39, Issue 49
To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
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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

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