{"id":538,"date":"2006-06-28T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T16:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/?p=538"},"modified":"2006-06-28T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T16:46:58","slug":"how-to-win-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/28\/how-to-win-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"How to win on ebay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.army.mod.uk\/img\/welshguards\/sniper.jpg\" alt=\"Sniper\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From slashdot:<br \/>\n&#8220;A study by South Korean physicists confirms what some of us have taken for granted for a long time: a single bid at end of auction nets the most wins. From the article: &#8216;Plugging all those data into the model and testing the outcome in terms of how the auctions turned out, the team found that the probability of submitting a winning bid on an item indeed drops with each bid. &#8220;Our analysis explicitly shows that the winning strategy is to bid at the last moment as the first attempt rather than incremental bidding from the start.&#8221; The study appears in the current Physical Review E journal.'&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From slashdot: &#8220;A study by South Korean physicists confirms what some of us have taken for granted for a long time: a single bid at end of auction nets the most wins. From the article: &#8216;Plugging all those data into the model and testing the outcome in terms of how the auctions turned out, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}