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Re: why eBay proxy bidding is broken
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sat, 16 Oct 1999 13:26:20 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@nomorespamNOVERA.COM
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Steve Demlow wrote:
> > 3. Can a bidder raise his/her proxy bid -without- rebidding on the lot?
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> I'd lean toward yes on this as a desirable feature, although with multiple
> instances of the same lot you then run into the problem of differentiating
> between a bid on a (potentially) additional instance vs. just raising the
> proxy bid of a instance (and which instance?) you already have the high bid
> on. This is a step away from the idea that you are bidding on n out of m
> lots without differentiating among those lots.
I tend to say no. Part of a proxy is the notion of what TIME it was
given. If I am at 30, have a proxy for 50 which I then raise to 70, it
seems to me that the 50-70 part should not be stamped as having the same
TIME as the earlier 30-50 part.
If the SW can keep track of time by bid segment sure, but the simpler
approach is to just disallow it.
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| (...) Yes. I haven't seen any disagreement on this one, except from e-bay. :/ (...) No. Philosophically, AFAIC, a bid is a bid - proxy or not - and shouldn't be retractable. There is also at least one practical problem with proxy retraction: timing. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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