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. - 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 .