WTF? (was Re: Microdata "Microprogramming Handbook")

Just as a point of information, I asked this specific question of eBay customer service (i.e., whether or not I could reject bids from snipers), and was told that as long as I clearly indicated what types of bids and/or bidders I would not accept, that this was fine. This was in June 2000; I don't know whether or not, if I asked them the same question today, I'd get the same answer. In thinking about this over the weekend, though, I realize that this policy doesn't actually do what I intended it to do (which is, to discourage bid sniping). Actually, it just moves back the "sniping deadline" by two minutes. So, I'm just going to delete that section from my Me page later on today. I still like the idea (both as a seller, and as a buyer) of just letting an auction continue as long as there are bids still coming in, so I may check out the Yahoo! auto-extend format auction (that Ian pointed me towards) for some items and see how well that works out. --Pat.