30 Sep
2010
30 Sep
'10
3:31 p.m.
On 9/30/10 5:28 PM, Richard wrote:
Its as if you were at an in-person auction and someone
bid right
between the "going" and "gone" and the auctioneer pointed to that
last
bidder and said "sold!" to that last bidder without giving anyone else
a chance to bid. This is what feels off about sniping compared to
what most people expect in an auction.
"What most people expect in an auction", I suspect, is pretty
different from what it was fifteen years ago, due primarily to eBay. I
am willing to bet that more transactions are conducted per year on eBay
than have been conducted at traditional auctions across the entirety of
recorded history.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL