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Re: Re: [OT] Ebay Diddle?




I used this software on the last item I won although it never actually
needed to place a bid as I won it anyway.

A question though :-
Doesn't using Ebay's bid up to a price feature have the same result? It
may even be better not needing to get around the Internet latency.

Thoughts?

Thanks

Ian






"Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxx>
14/12/2004 09:46
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It may have been people using sniping software - automatically placing
bids
at the last minute to avoid people then coming in and outbidding them.  If
you get a few people doing this, the price can jump quite dramatically at
the end.

It is a useful technique, though.  I used it to secure a couple of PDAs -
the program placed a bid with only 10 seconds to go, meaning no-one had
time
to outbid me.

Mal




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