btcg
Babbling Farker
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2010
- Location
- North Potomac, MD
I may have misunderstood the original point. What a bidder has on their monitor due to their browser settings is meaningless to me. If I'm writing code to accomplish the task described I'm only concerned with the data I can gather, operating my shill accounts, and processing data. My app would scrape various auctions for bids, bid history, account name, and process it. A basic analysis would more than likely yield some insightful info as to bid trends from a user, especially in comparison to other bidders. Time, ammount, amount of increase, average diff. from high and low bids, etc...
Manipulating bidding through shill accounts would be a piece of cake, and easily automated with some really basic scripts. Doing it over time, would require some extra effort to avoid detection however.
Thanks for the brain candy!
NP.
You like Frank Zappa, and you're a programmer... you're all right dude!