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| (...) What about missing decimal point bids? I did that once by accident. How do you assess the 10% penalty (against the actual bid or the proxy - if by the proxy, retractinc a misplaced decimal bid would cost you 10 times the max you expected to (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) Probably should also allow retraction of the actual bid at no penalty if done within, say, 5 minutes or something like that, and if no one else has yet counter-bid with information based on your mis-bid. Probably should also make you go (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) still (...) You aren't considered the "high bidder" if the winner retracts- but the seller does get everyone's bids, and it's natural to assume they might contact a lower bidder to unload the item. In other words, you might get contacted, but (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) [snip] Ebay already does this. You type in your bid, then you get a revue screen where you see your bid and then have to confirm your intention. I don't see where yet another page would help the process if you already missed it on the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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