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Originally Posted by pilotbob
If you've ever done any web programming you would realize that the web is stateless. There is no way this could be accurate as you say.
The second you hit the server and it built the page it sent to you there probably where 3 available. But, by the time you tried to buy 10 other people could have been ahead of you. The best you can do is what you can do in a situation like this.
BOb
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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.