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RE: variac via E-bay (offtopic but necessary)
I know this isn't on TC specific however...
If there is something I reeeely want on eBay, to give myself a fighting chance,
I stay at the office and use the company's T-1 line.
I open two windows and constantly refresh one as time grows short. The other
window has my "final answer" ready to go.
When 30 seconds is left and it's now or never, I hit the bid button.
The T-1 line does the rest.
I have sniped and won this way and it's only because of the BIG system here
that I can.
Ted
>Subject: Re: variac via E-bay (offtopic but necessary)
Original Poster: "Adam" <adamsmith-at-mediaone-dot-net>
> Potential E-bay bidders,
>
> What is likely to be happening is that your competitors are using special
> software programs which automatically submit bids at the last possible
> second. If you browse around the web, and I think in the software section
> of E-bay, you can find sources for these programs to use yourself. Fight
> fire with fire!
> --Steve
>I would like to caution against this. Ebay will kick you off their service
>permanently if they determine you are using bid sniping software. Ebay's
>rules specifically forbid using any software, bots, scripts, etc... other
>than a browser, to monitor and/or submit bids. Just because people sell
>this software through Ebay does not consitute endorsement by ebay--the fact
>that it's allowed is a free enterprise issue.
>Will eBay know if you use it? Well, the monitoring/bidding mechanism of the
>sniping software does have a telltale M.O., a signature if you will. Sloppy
>bidding software might not send a convincing set of HTTP headers either.
>Ebay no doubt has their log analyzers set up to look for cheaters, since the
>integrity of their system depends on it.
>-Adam
>adamsmith-at-mediaone-dot-net