eBay being sued over patent infringement

Mail List wrote: That feeling is, at least from what I have seen, not a universal one. What seems to be far more reaching is the feeling that the ebay management is incompetent from the standpoint of running auctions. They are incredibly inept at making decisions that will help the sellers, and incredibly arrogant at forcing their ideas on the ebay community. The DNF Board (Discuss Newest Features Board for those who don't know) has a number of people who are *very* familiar with the workings of ebay and help out where they can. <commercial> The DNF Board has a tradition of people seeing how many multiple posts they can make at 22:22:22 Ebay (Pacific Coast) time. The current record is 17 in the single second. This is done manually and is actually a lot of fun. Take a look at: http://www.rain.org/~marvin/tuz.htm for more information. I wrote this after I became (briefly) the reigning champion with 8 or so posts. The DNF Board is at: http://chatboards.ebay.com/chat.jsp?forum=1&thread=2 </commercial> Sniping is a requirement unless the bidder doesn't mind being the bid price going up. I made a suggestion to ebay years ago that sealed bids should be allowed that would only become known after the auction had ended. That would encourage bidders to make a realistic bid of what they are willing to pay, and make the sniping issue irrelevant. Of course, since that would benefit the sellers, it was ignored.