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Subject: 
Re: why eBay proxy bidding is broken
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Date: 
Sun, 10 Oct 1999 06:17:28 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek (lar@voyager.net) wrote:

Others do not. but to me it's just one more example of why eBay is
deficient. Pretty much every time I examine some facet, I find something
I don't like. Amazing, really, that it has done so well anyway. but so
be it.

E-bay now has the popularity/momentum/visibility to do just about whatever
they want and continue to get away with it.  I find it unfortunate that their
somewhat sloppy idea of online auctioning is now considered the standard.

Steve
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Barb & Steve Demlow  |  demlow@visi.com  |  www.visi.com/~demlow/



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  Re: why eBay proxy bidding is broken
 
(...) preface: eBay can do it whatever way they want. And the URL given later in the thread makes it clear they acknowledge the way they do it may result in a bump. Their place, their rules. My thesis is NOT that they "can't" run things that way, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)

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