12/12/08, 11:22 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Iowa
Posts: 2,363
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funny
Well, you pay say $3.00 for a camera, plus a .75 bid. Now someone else bids. Then you bid and automatically the amount of time goes up, as they add "20 seconds each time a person bids", your price goes up by .90, because it goes up .15 for the actual price and .75 for your cost for bidding, so, now you are up to paying $4.65, and someone else gets another chance to bid, and then it would go up another .90 and the time increases again, on and on and on until people get tired of bidding. Your cost actually is .90 per bid, and it also shows that some of the items, like the TVs have "fixed prices", so those won't even sell until the fixed price, or reserve is met. Its fine if you like to pay .90 per play to play a waiting game, but otherwise, it's going to get quite expensive by the time its done and a 10 second auction could take days to get over with, so the price is higher in some cases than ebay.
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