5.8

How do you handle irate bidders
who think other bidders are
bidding in bad faith?


Design a system for inter-bidder e-mail into your auctionbot. Let them argue it out.

Listening to idle speculation isn't worth your time, and you can't prove anyone is acting in bad faith anyway. Auctions are a dog-eat-dog world sometimes, that's just how it is.


8 Jan 96 [TSL]