arstechnica.com — The Internet auction giant eBay has announced that it is opening up the programming interfaces for eBay, PayPal, and Skype to third-party developers. The company also demonstrated a rich client bidding application. No word yet on whether or not it will make bid sniping easier.
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crushfanJun 13, 2007
ITS RILLY COL WUT WRONG WIT TAHT??!?!??
lordbeefJun 13, 2007
You can bet it'll be aimed more for the buyer. There are already tons of tools for sellers to speed up their processes, but not many tools for buyers to make shopping more fun or customizedeBay has also stated that this year they're focusing on the buyer experience, including redoing search, the home page, the new feedback stars, and also working on getting rid of the worst sellers (see their post here: <a class="user" href="http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=2000378251&start=0">http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=2000378251&start=0</a> ) that make up 35% of bad transactions on eBay
quuxJun 13, 2007
Better yet, just have the auction end 5 minutes after the last bid in after a certain time. E.g., it ends at 8:00 pm, 1 guy snipes with 1 second left, the bidding goes on for another 5 minutes to 8:05. If he snipes again at 8:04:59, it goes another 5 minutes to 8:10. Not that I don't like the sniping, it's just that it's an easy problem to solve.
hawk_eyeJun 13, 2007
@TheFounderThey also let you make money off the traffic you send to the send. don't see what your gripe is about !
meshJun 13, 2007
The client mentioned in the aritcle is built on top of the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), which used to be refered to by its code name of Apollo.More info here:<a class="user" href="http://www.adobe.com/go/air">http://www.adobe.com/go/air</a>and<a class="user" href="http://onair.adobe.com">http://onair.adobe.com</a> (summer road tour on the runtime)mike chambersmesh@adobe.com
nogamiJun 13, 2007
Your point a) is invalid. It's part of the game. Sellers try and make the most money, buyers try and pay the least. That's how it works.I personally snipe because I don't see any point in alerting other potential bidders that I'm also watching an item (hence, why I also block the counters and such so they don't update), and I don't want to get a bidding war going.As far as b) goes, I totally agree that that's a problem that needs to be solved. I can understand how people can just purposefully ruin other people's auctions by sniping a bogus bid at the last minute. That's typically why I block both foreign bidders (outside north america), and people with low feedback when posting my own actions.