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i wrote up some content and code (just a greasemonkey script) for doing this on swoopo last year - http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2009/03/06/trying_to_game_swoopo_c....

i assume the site you did this with doesn't have the same problem as swoopo did, where their automated server-side bidding mechanism was favored over manual bids?

do you have any figures on how long it took to win any particular auctions, how much money it cost, and how many auctions you lost?



The automated bidding was randomly in the last ten seconds (from a brief look at Swoopo its the same). That was quite easily beaten my a bot that could bid at the last second.

I put in equivalent of $3,000

Won: iPhone 4 32gb, $200 vouchers, Dell Streak, 64gb iPad, 640gb hdd, BlackBerry Torch, 2x GPS, Wii game, 32gb iPod, 100gm gold bar (and still had roughly $300 of bids left)

^ All in two weeks which raised a lot of red flags and then got my account suspended. It was a little greedy perhaps - but I figured they'd probably update their terms and conditions with text against bots at which point I would have stopped.




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