26 Oct
1998
26 Oct
'98
10:45 p.m.
> I would prefere the last one, because it would
reflect the
> idea of proxy bidding - bid once and let the eBay do its job.
I personally *hate* the proxy bid idea. At least how
it works on eBay.
There's not many things as demoralizing than seeing something nifty with a
bid of $2.00 on it and someone has put a maximum bid of $50.00 on it. The
whole fun of an incremental auction is the small jumps in bidding and that
soul-searching question you have to ask yourself each time you're outbid:
"Do I really want to go a buck higher on that [insert item here]?"
Shure, real auctions are real fun, but a proxy auction
is the closest thing possible without going for a sealed
bid auction, since it combines both for the well of the
buyer.
What I'd love to see is a live auction site, where
the auctions for each
item don't last more than 10 minutes or so. Descriptions/pictures for the
items could be on a separate server a week in advance (like the preview
for a real auction) and an item catalog that people could print out.
Just for my information - are you willing to put up an pay my
private line to this auction centre ? At the usual afternoon
to midnight traffic jam on the trans atlantic conections, I
sometines need four or five minutes to reload an eBay page.
Gruss
H.
Kai mentioned Haggle online (I still laugh at the lit'l characters:),
but as long as they still only do the same (including suporting
this stupid minimum bid thing - where is the sense of a min bid
beside avoide getting sold?) as eBay, I belive they woun't go for
number one. Just putting up a good category isn't enough (even if
he would enshure that less noise is inside Antique Computers).
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK