Comment by DangitBobby
3 hours ago
> being able to snipe so favoured eBay with more of their attention and this brought more sellers to the platform
Did they measure the impact of people who stopped using the platform due to their bids being sniped?
3 hours ago
> being able to snipe so favoured eBay with more of their attention and this brought more sellers to the platform
Did they measure the impact of people who stopped using the platform due to their bids being sniped?
I would bet that they have. Personally I stopped using eBay because of sniping. I'm a particularly devastating case for them, because had the system not felt rigged to me then I likely would have continued on the site making many purchases. However it immediately made me lose confidence in the system and bail.
Unsure (those reports I read were some time ago). Though that may be another reason why the built-in snipe-like tool was added, so appease those users as well as to decrease the load imposed by external tools.