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| (...) minimum (...) Well, it's sort of an innate fairness, I suppose, but also partly a difference of opinion about what a proxy bid is. I'll attempt an explanation. 1: eBay as written, allows the system to be cheated. Let's assume, for the sake of (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) bid of $10 for fifteen identical lots with the current bid at $3. I come along and say, "Wow, look at those!" and bid $12 on one lot, Auczilla will proxy every single lot you have up to $10. That will basically cause some dissatisfaction. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) I don't beleive it's a flaw or known bug, per se. It is in fact intentional behaviour. See: (URL) to readers in the distant future, that URL may not work. At the time of writing, X was the current auction... if it doesn't try whatever the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) PS, this is why I have stopped bidding on ALL of a given lot type and size, even if I want most of them... let someone else's bid get bumped first. :-) (25 years ago, 10-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) Auczilla (...) I don't have a problem with Auczilla doing things that way. It saves lots of time because I assure you, if I want one of those 15 lots it saves me lots of time rather than bidding up one, followed by another, followed by.... (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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