On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 08:29:22PM -0700, Timothy Sherburne wrote:
> 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

they say this on their website clearly and when you list your items.

> 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.

start and end times show a difference of a little under 2 hrs.

> 
> 
> 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.

not in this case i think.
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