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Re: ebay time glitch
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.market.auction
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Date:
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Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:48:37 GMT
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lawrence wilkes wrote:
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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.
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> 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.
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> All the times seemed correct, i.e. the auction finish time, the ebay official
> time.
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> It made me wonder what other auctions I was missing as I wouldnt know without
> the ID number.
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 items" and "new items" pages tended to
show items which had started 3hrs or so previously, in fact, sometimes
these things don't even show in searches). They may also be trying to
fine tune the "auctions about to end" to not show as many already ended
auctions. If that is done incorrectly, it will end up not showing some
auctions which are still running.
--
Frank Filz
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