6 May
2014
6 May
'14
4:54 p.m.
On 05/06/2014 04:03 PM, Jarratt RMA wrote:
I sometimes receive surveys from EBay. My consistent
comment is that they
should put an end to rules that encourage sniping. Perhaps if everyone said
the same they might actually do something. Trouble is they have close to a
monopoly on this market, so they are unlikely to listen.
Well, there were services like that. Remember Yahoo! auctions? OnSale?
UBid? On UBid, (and this may still be true), every new bid caused the
auction to be extended by 10 minutes. An auction could run for weeks.
I don't think that model would work very well for eBay, which depends on
traffic as their model. Knowing that an auction has a specified
beginning and an end is very attractive.
EBay's bidding system is sui generis, as nearly as I can tell.
--Chuck