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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1724089, member: 27832&quot;]That would almost make sense -- except that you could still &quot;manually snipe&quot; for free. They&#039;d have to impose some sort of advantage for their service.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess they <i>could</i> just impose more &quot;jitter&quot; on bids entered manually or through their existing APIs, so that there&#039;s an unpredictable delay of five to ten seconds -- something long enough to give human reflexes a chance. It would generate a lot of ill will among bidders, though, and that&#039;s something eBay seems extremely reluctant to do. (They&#039;ll stomp all over <i>sellers</i>, but <i>buyers</i> still tend to get coddled.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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