I've been watching the By-It-Now auctions carefully over the past month (but apparently not carefully enough!) and I've concluded that eBay only updates their search indexes every 60 to 180 minutes, depending on the load. Despite the 2 hour difference between the listing time and sale time, I doubt this lens was actually available for more than a couple of minutes.
(As an aside, this strategy makes good technical sense to me, as attempting to solve the problem using a more direct approach would only result in a server performance disaster!) There are some folks who make their living on deals like this, and they watch some of these categories religiously. There may be some third-party auction mining software or proxy bidding software at work, too. t On 4/29/02 5:30 PM, ¨©ukasz Kacperczyk wrote: > Even I would have bought it! > Damn. Still - it lasted two hours. How come noone of you Ebay addicts got > it? ;) - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
