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Penny auction sites are like slot machines: The House always wins. It shouldn't be possible to trick the public interface (if they've coded it right), so any bi
by qjz 16y ago
Penny auction sites are like slot machines: The House always wins. It shouldn't be possible to trick the public interface (if they've coded it right), so any bid placed will make them money. In fact, warring bots will only increase their profit, so they probably won't invoke the ToS, UNLESS it is also profitable for them to disqualify your winning bid, then put the item up for auction again, without reimbursing earlier losing bids.
But you don't mention having actually won anything, so unless you have, don't be so sure that your script is worth anything.
- vessenes 16y agoI haven't won anything yet, but there are only a few very expensive items auctioned per day. I lost one today -- my algorithm thought it likely someone else would outbid and it was wrong. Bummer! Again, I spent roughly one-sixth of the winner's bids. I may turn this into an EC2 backed service on reflection, but of course, I need to win something first. ; ).