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Re: Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
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Date: 
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:02:07 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, galliard@shades-of-night.com (James Brown) writes:
> > As a user of eBay, I can not complain.  [...]
> 
> That's part of the problem (to take your sentence literally).  eBay's primary
> method of feedback is very cleverly directed not at the system, but at the
> people who use the system.  If you are frustrated by something about eBay,
> they very carefully redirect you so that the simplest path for your
> frustration to take is on another user, not against the system itself.

WHOA.

Darn Good Point.

--Todd



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  Re: Proxy ratcheting: How do auction systems work?
 
In lugnet.market.auction, John DiRienzo writes: <snippage> (...) Todd answered most of your points much more sensibly than I could, but I still want to reply this one. Any system (auction or otherwise) that encourages unfair activity, deserves at (...) (27 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)

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