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Subject: 
ebay time glitch
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.auction
Date: 
Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:41:35 GMT
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I noticed today that ebay (.com or .co.uk) seemed only to be listing auctions
that ended in an hour(ish) or more. Normally there are auctions that end in
minutes.
This wasnt a lack of auctions ending within minutes though, just that they
were not being displayed unless you searched on the specific auction ID
number. Searching for a more precise set name for example, still didnt list it.

I noticed this when I followed a link to an auction from lugnet, that had
minutes to run, but wasnt comming up in the seach. Looking at the sellers
other auctions, they had lots more that ended within minutes, but none were
being displayed in the search list.

All the times seemed correct, i.e. the auction finish time, the ebay official
time.

It made me wonder what other auctions I was missing as I wouldnt know without
the ID number.

Strange


regards
lawrence



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  Re: ebay time glitch
 
(...) The various listings (as opposed to searches) are generated by periodic scans of the database. It seems like they've reduced the interval of these scans, which may cause some items to not show up (I was noticing for example that the "current (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction)

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