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Hmmmm... when you go to a live auction you do not bid an hour before and then wait. It all happens real time. Look at it like this, the seven days or whatever the seller chooses to list at is really like setting the date and time for the actual auction. You look to see when it will end and if interested you show up and bid.

There are still deals to be had. My friend was getting married and wanted to buy watches for the wedding party. He picked out some seiko kinetics that were $450 each msrp. The best deal he could find was to get the nine he needed for around $3k. I went on ebay and found new old stock of seiko kinetics that had an msrp of $485. I got the nine of them for $1300 plus shipping. He liked them more.



But at a live auction, if someone bids just before the auctioneer says sold, it resets the 'going once, going twice...' thing and lets other people bid again if they wan't. That's what I meant by my earlier post. All Ebay would have to do is put in script that caused an auction to be extended by 15 minutes or so if anybody bids in the last few minutes/seconds. Wouldn't be hard, and sellers would probably make more money on average.

For the record, I have no problem with the way Ebay works now, if I want something and don't get it, another will pop up eventually. I was just saying how Ebay could stop sniping if they wanted to.

Last edited by SpiderFox; 08/26/2007 4:30 PM.
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