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Re: States Go After Online Auctions; $1000 fines
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lugnet.market.auction
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Wed, 15 Dec 1999 20:00:08 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Steve Bliss writes:
> I think there are arguments against that. eBay must just provide the service,
> but they also run the auction. The seller sets some of the parameters (starting
> bid, duration of auction, visibility), but the seller does not set bid
> increments, collect bids, nor close the auction.
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> So I'd say it's a least a lot gray.
While I would never underestimate the grasping perfidity of a politician of
any party other than Libertarian, this may well be one of those urban legends
in the making. One which, 8 months from now, we will equate to the "Post
office is lobbying to have internet mail taxed" and the like.
One can only hope so, anyway.
++Lar
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| (...) I think there are arguments against that. eBay must just provide the service, but they also run the auction. The seller sets some of the parameters (starting bid, duration of auction, visibility), but the seller does not set bid increments, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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