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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1724139, member: 37498&quot;]The advantage is convenience.&nbsp; People pay for that all the time...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course they could do this too, and I wouldn&#039;t put it past FeeBay for a second, but I don&#039;t think they should.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think another advantage for this is security.&nbsp; FeeBay <i>should</i> be concerned that there are thousands of users out there who have provided their login credentials to third party bidding sites.&nbsp; The first concern is obvious.&nbsp; The second concern is more subtle, but just imagine you were running a third party bidding service with thousands of active users.&nbsp; It wouldn&#039;t be 100%, but there would invariably be times where there could be an item you&#039;re interested in that one or more of your customers has set up a snipe on.&nbsp; You could easily outbid that user, or you could make it so his bid doesn&#039;t go through and blame it on FeeBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a perfect world, we wouldn&#039;t have shill bidders.&nbsp; In a semi perfect world, eBay would introduce this as a free option in the bidding process in an effort to help cut down on shill bidding.&nbsp; In the world as we know it, FeeBay could step in and provide this service for a nominal fee.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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