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Originally Posted by teh603
Never been outbid and said, "Wow, I would've bid more, but I didn't expect the auction to go that high?"
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Then I would have bid more in the first place. That is how it is meant to work. Decide how much you want to pay, bid that.
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Either way, you're just making excuses for someone else's greed and lack of ethics. Botters drive up the price of goods beyond what's reasonable, humans find themselves wondering just what the heck happened, and the lack of ethics just perpetuates itself.
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Because stuff like this grossly undermines human instrumentality. Its worse on sites like eBay, though, because an auction bot can outbid someone in the last few seconds, despite the would-be winner's having placed what seemed like a safe, reasonable bid; and possibly his willingness to pay more if given the chance.
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So they would have been prepared to pay more,
and the bots are driving up the price beyond what is reasonable? Both can't be true.