2 May
2001
2 May
'01
12:24 a.m.
At 01:13 PM 4/29/01 -0400, Tony Eros wrote:
Yeah, but in much the same way that the phone knows
when you're taking a
bath, my cable modem knows when I'm planning to snipe and on at least three
occasions decided to start resynching with the network about a minute
before the end of an auction I wanted.
Yes, it has happened to me too. Another strategy that
is beginning to become commonplace is "last-minute flooding",
when a bidder will send 10 or 20 bids with the smallest value
increment within the last 10 seconds or so of the auction.
I wonder if this can actually block out other last-second
bidders or if eBay has an adequate receipt-time-stamp/post-processing
bid evaluation system.
Carlos.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org