[LEAPSECS] Synchronization requirement

[Tony Finch]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>

> Savy auction houses deal with such behaviour by not closing the

> auction "while bidding is ongoing", typically implementing a

> 30 second wait after the most recent bid before closing.

> Why eBay doesn't have always been a mystery to me, people would

> statistically get better prices if they did.


They'd never be able to close any auctions :-)

Tony.
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