Reply to "!!!!!Burning Question re: Bidding!!!!!"

cooperMember

As if that wasn't enough of a rant. I was thinking about the times someone sniped an item from me on ebay. The first thing that came to mind was that at a live auction, the auctioneer won't finalize the auction without "checking the house" (going once...twice...)

Is it possible ebay may one day find it neccessary to do something to level the playing field between automated and non-automated bidding because there are so many bidders using Auction Sniper? Like ending auctions "sometime between 05:00 & 06:00 on the specified day ("get your bid in by 05:00" but they leave different amounts of lag time? Or maybe by then someone will have a service called Auction Sniper Sniper.

I guess that when the day comes that most ebay users are using Auction Sniper, you guys will have to let us know what you think from your private island in the Carribean.

thanks,
coop

8/24/031:35 PM

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