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| (...) No, you're mistaken. It's not public information. Each individual bid is publicly available information, yes. But to tally up each person's bids from publicly available information and then post that _new_ information (which is not publicly (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) I agree with that. Anonymizing the derivative data would solve that. It might even be a good idea to anonymize the bidding pages themselves. (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) That would probably solve the individual bidder portion, yes. (...) No, then the personal updates via e-mail would also have to be anonymized, otherwise anyone who wanted to try to tally up people's amounts could just get it from a big e-mail (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) One other thing, related: Many people browse the web listings -- or check in periodically -- from work or from a public place where they aren't able to get to their email, so in many cases, they need to be able to see their name, to know (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) That's an extreme case, but, no, I don't think their total in that case is public information. The fact that they're spending $1.00 each on those three lots is publicly available information, but if you add $1.00 + $1.00 + $1.00 and get $3.00, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) So if person A bids on 3 lots of the same piece, one right after the other, each for $1.00 each, the total of those 3 lots, $3.00, _isn't_ public information? Now granted, most people probably have bids spanning multiple pages, but I know (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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