Allan Streib wrote: > > I think ebay ought to not have fixed expiration times. It ought to be > like a real auction, i.e. keep taking bids as long as they are coming > in.
IIRC, Auctionarms.com has/had a going...going...gone format. If there was a bid in the last five minutes, the clock would reset to five minutes. The auction continued until there had been no bids for five minutes. That allowed plenty of time for the loser to get his "you've been outbid" email.
