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Originally Posted by jplumey
That's not entirely accurate. The auction portion of a site is a Flash animation that automatically decrements. If you watch it you will notice that it decrements in real time. Even then, we're talking about a span of almost when there was a counter on the site that did not reflect the accurate results of the auction.
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But, it still has to make a round trip to the server to update... it might "seem" like real time, but it's not. In the few seconds between it saying 3 left, 100 people could have attempted to purchase one of those 3 units.
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