Bugger.

[unixronin]

...that these days, it's an exercise in complete futility trying to buy anything on eBay that anyone else wants, except via Buy It Now, unless you have a multi-megabit connection or an account with one of the automated robot-bid-sniping services.

And to think that when automated bid-sniping first started, eBay banned it because it was unfair.  I guess they musta decided that fairness could go fuck itself, 'cos they made more money off the last-90-seconds bid-sniping wars.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, OK, that and I'm sorta pissed at the extent to which eBay's decided it's morals and sense of fairness are available for sale where there's money to be made. All kinds of things, including bidding robots, that used to be illegal back when eBay had a soul are now considered fair play. They don't even seem to care about auction spam any more.

At least they're still making some effort on the outright fraudulent auctions.