Deceptions at eBAy!

[Kris]

I'm not so sure its a Deception as it is a load off their data bases..
If everytime you, everyone and their brother did a search and got up to
the second bid prices, bids and times the dbs would be Dead.  
If you notice the time is static info for the page off the meta tag, like
the time "Ends PST" not a count down out of the DB, its a count down from
the meta tag out of a once posted searchable description.

Kris Loranger
kris at kancer.978.org
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"If you're going to sell out, sell out ethically" -Moby

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Randall Hofland wrote:

> I don't know if anyone on BLU Discuss spends much time perusing eBay,
> but I've noted in my searches for bargains that eBay now fails to update
> many of the bids when you use the search mode. I just spotted one that
> has yet to post bids that date an entire week ago, much less the many
> that have come since. So it looks like no one has bid on an item when in
> fact several or even dozens of bids have already been entered.
> 
> No wonder eBay's servers get overloaded. Everyone thinks they see a
> bargain until they get to the actual auction page! They could probably
> cut their electric bill by 60% if they would just keep their auction
> pages properly updated.
> 
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