Re: Re: Compaq Proliant Server help

[Jim Noble <yahoo-groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Harrison (Yahoo!) wrote:

>
> If I could change one thing about eBay, it would be to automatically
> extend
> the "end of auction" time by, say, 5 minutes, if a bid was
received
> within 5
> minutes of the end...
>
> .... so if someone sniped with 30 seconds to spare, everyone else
> would have
> 5 minutes to ACTUALLY decide if they wanted to go higher...
>
The trouble with this (and ending randomly in the last X hours) is that
it shifts the balance towards the seller (too much IMHO) - there is
nearly always a muppet out there who won't let it go for the sake of a
minimum bid increment...

I think it's fairly balanced as it is.

(After all, if you don't want something to sell for a low price, you can
use a reserve/starting price...)

Jim