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Re: Defeating eBay sniping?
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lugnet.market.theory
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Tue, 15 Jun 1999 23:25:46 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> That's an interesting approach! So far, all the tweaks have been around
> the rules or endtimes, etc... manipulating the price seems a direct
> incentive. Why not even apply some non linear function to really ratchet
> the price up at the very end? (perhaps by stating that it's built into
> the shipping that you pay actual shipping plus a handling charge that is
> proportional to the inverse of the time remaining when you placed your
> first bid, or second to last bid, or something)
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> Clever!
Didn't someone mention that eBay rules (incidentally, where can there
"fine print" be found - I've looked) forbid excessive shipping charges
(because they don't get their commission)?
> "Christopher L. Weeks" wrote:
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> > A solution that I don't recall being discussed, but that I've been
> > mulling over is to use eBay, but have the final price calculated thus:
> >
> > p = wb * (1 - (dfe * v)) + shipping
> >
> > where:
> > p is the price
> > wb is the winning bid
> > dfe is # of Days From the End of the auction when the bid was placed
> > v is some variable (I'm leaning toward .03)
> >
> > This would encourage/reward fire-and-forget bidding allowing the
> > earliest bidders to "up" their bids by 21% (for a seven day auction)
> > over their 'real' value limit. It's not a sure-fire cure to sniping,
> > but it give a strong advantage to the early bird.
> >
> > I would be keen to hear any comments you might have.
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Christopher L. Weeks
> > central Missouri, USA
>
> --
> Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar
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| Frank Filz wrote in message <3766E0FA.51A5@minds...ng.com>... (...) I think that was me. The following is taken from "Listing Policies" ((URL) interpretation of the eBay User Agreement ((URL) - David ---begin excerpt--- Listing Techniques that (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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