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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 (...) (26 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.auction)

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