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Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick"
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lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date: 
Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:26:47 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Ran Talbott writes:
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:53:22, "richard marchetti" • <blueofnoon@aol.com>
wrote:

I have noticed that eBay doesn't go very far back in time at all
with this service any longer -- I can only assume that they perceived • existing
auction results as limiting the price potential of auctions currently • underway.

I think it's a lot more likely that the sheer size of the database was
making searches a *lot* slower (causing customer frustration),  and
greatly increasing their costs without doing much to increase profits.
What is funny is that the pages are still there you just can't search to find
them.  I have scrapbooked search result pages and still been able to
view the lots that they contain over two months later.



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  Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick"
 
(...) Not surprising, if you know a little about the guts of systems like that: it's very cheap to do "get record # 899542", but expensive to do "search 5 gigabytes of information about 2 million auctions, and see if any of the descriptions (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction)

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  Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick"
 
(...) I think it's a lot more likely that the sheer size of the database was making searches a *lot* slower (causing customer frustration), and greatly increasing their costs without doing much to increase profits. ebay is so huge that they're (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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