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(...) The 5-10 minute works to disable people who snipe in the last 30 seconds or so. When people slam in bids with less than 1 minute left in the auction, it's extremely challenging for anyone to re-bid in time. With a 5-10 minute (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: shills on eBay
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(...) Because adding bids increases demand for the item. So any bidding activity from the seller is suspect. It's a matter of trust. I have a friend who sells at craft fairs. She reports that the thing that increases her sales volume is to have (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: CFD: e-bay (aka ranting and raving)
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(...) But the idea with computerized sniping is you can fire off a low bid late enough in the game, that no one will be able to react in time (even another computer -- it won't be informed of the change soon enough). If the item is already bidded (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: CFD: e-bay (aka ranting and raving)
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(...) Steve (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) In this particular case, it's because it was boron. Steve (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:58:54 GMT, "Selçuk <teyyareci>" <sgore@nospam.superonline.com> wrote: Follow-up to .fun, for obvious reasons. (...) Well... I'm not sure if this is a spoiler or not. I think not, because I think it's book 3... yes, it is. It's (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That would be "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". If the translator translated "holistic" to Turkish-for-"holy", then you might be better off to read the English language originals. (...) There is also "The Long Dark Tea-time of the (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: CFD: e-bay (aka ranting and raving)
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(...) Seriously, we're all (well, I am anyway) eager to start dumping a cut into your projects. (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36ccaaf5.56473925@l...et.com>... (...) Not that easy, takes 10M years to come by...:-) Selçuk (1) Preliminary answer?..now I'm at the middle of fourth book, and probably will start fifth one this weekend...:-) nice (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: CFD: e-bay (aka ranting and raving)
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(...) Here is some background info: (URL) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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