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Is Ebay rigging bids?
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I wanted a rude username:
Ah, my mistake: the various ebay.ccTLD sites (ebay.co.uk, ebay.com.au, ebay.fr, etc.) are localised for timezone and time format, but ebay.hr (and also ebay.eu) just redirects to ebay.com.

eBay doesn't support changing either the timezone or time format on any site, even ebay.com.
donotdespisethesnake:

--- Quote from: Deni on February 14, 2020, 10:53:13 pm ---
--- Quote --- They are unambiguous. They are just illogical to us, because we are aware of the concept of zero.

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Well, NIST does think so (https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/times-day-faqs) - see first line after sub-title "Are noon and midnight referred to as 12 a.m. or 12 p.m.?"
And I take them as pretty good authority on the subject  ;)

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I think that FAQ is badly worded, because they then proceed to completely contradict themselves and give an unambiguous definition: "[the time at] the shortest measurable duration after noon should be designated as p.m.". According to NIST, the shortest measurable duration is about 10^-15 seconds, which in human terms can be specified as "instantly".

What they really mean is that "people are often confused by am and pm", which is unambiguously true.
peter-h:
"A sniping service is only useful to that emotionally weak people who can't stop bidding and that take it as a personnel challenge when someone outbids them"

Yet, that is precisely the biggest problem with Ebay. Most bidders are amateurs who just can't resist...

That is why one should decide the max one is prepared to pay, and esnipe it. I have been using esnipe.com for years. I set mine to t minus 5 seconds, to beat the t minus 6 seconds which a lot of other esnipers use :)
I wanted a rude username:

--- Quote from: peter-h on February 15, 2020, 10:48:32 am ---I set mine to t minus 5 seconds, to beat the t minus 6 seconds which a lot of other esnipers use

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Leaving less time thwarts manual bidders who might otherwise react to your bid.

It only disadvantages you against other snipers ... in the rare case that they snipe exactly the same price.
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