July 16th 08, 07:31 PM
posted to alt.marketing.online.ebay,rec.games.chess.politics,rec.games.chess.computer,rec.games.chess.misc,alt.chess
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Beat by a Computer on eBay
On Jul 16, 11:21*am, wrote:
On Jul 15, 8:08*pm, samsloan wrote:
Beat by a Computer on eBay
Boy am I really ****ed off. I have been trying to buy a particular
edition of a book for a year. Finally I saw one listed on eBay. So, on
July 8, 2008 I placed a most generous bid of $150.03 for the book.
The book is Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess, published by Simon &
Schuster.
The auction was expiring just now, at Jul-15-08 15:57:30 PDT.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...e=STRK:MEBIDX:....
Because I knew that there might be a last minute bid I was sitting
here counting down the seconds until the auction was over. I kept
hitting the refresh key.
Finally, with just ten seconds remaining in the auction, someone
outbid me. I rushed to place a higher bid but my computer is not that
fast and just before I got my bid in the time was up.
I am aware that there are computer programs to enable a bidder on eBay
to place a bid just seconds before the time is up. That is obviously
what this person did because it would be almost impossible for a human
to time a bid so perfectly as to come in just ten seconds before the
end. A normal human could never do that.
The bidder is named bookforlovehttp://myworld.ebay.com/bookforlove/
He is probably sitting there laughing his ass off that his computer
program beat me by ten seconds. He probably does not even care about
the book. He probably plans just to flip it to somebody. Meanwhile I
really need that book.
But I am going to get that guy. I am going to find out who bookforlove
is. He thinks this is a big joke. I am not joking. He is no better
than a chess player who uses a computer to cheat at chess.
Sam Sloan
* Hmmm. Our Sam recently told us he's living in poverty in a dreadful
neighborhood. Presumably, one or more of his children are too. Yet he
is willing to spend $150 on a chess book? Strange priorities.
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listen, it's a usenet group.. you already know that answer.
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