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Re: Question for eBay experts
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lugnet.market.auction
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Fri, 21 Apr 2000 08:34:35 GMT
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Hi Todd,
All I can say is great idea, I've been bidding quite heavily on ebay lately and
hate it when I come across a nice set at a ridiculously cheap bid knowing that
even if I put a realistic bid on it, it won't show up until I'm outbid and will
only increment by the minimum amount. Your approach would tend to warn off the
site seers and opportunists.
I'm just pleased I didn't cancel my other ISP yet.
Thanks
Mark H.
Todd Lehman wrote:
> What happened to the dual-entry bidding boxes that used to be on eBay? I
> haven't placed any bids on it since sometime in 1998, so I don't know when
> this changed or even if my memories of the old way are correct, but I thought
> that the way it used to work was that you would specify both a current bid and
> a maximum (proxy maximum) bid. Then when your bid was accepted, the high bid
> would jump to your minimum and later climb to your maximum.
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> But the way it seems to work now is that there is only a single box for a
> proxy maximum. What happened to the other box? I just placed a bid of $50.00
> on an item that was going for $1.00, and it only jumped to $3.50. I had to
> create a second account under an alternate email address and then resubmit my
> bid of $50.00 from that account to get the price to jump up straight to where
> I wanted it to be originally.
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> I read the eBay User Agreement carefully and didn't see anything preventing
> people from bidding under multiple accounts. And this isn't shilling so it's
> not bid manipulation. Why have they removed such a useful thing? :-(
>
> --Todd
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| (...) Personally, I don't like this practice. There's a psychology to auctions that's being circumvented with this type of practice. Someone may look at an item and say "I won't bid on that because it's only been up one day and is already at (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| What happened to the dual-entry bidding boxes that used to be on eBay? I haven't placed any bids on it since sometime in 1998, so I don't know when this changed or even if my memories of the old way are correct, but I thought that the way it used to (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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