Post by goldservice on Jun 26, 2014 17:15:42 GMT
Elsewhere GSV said:
"I'd sell mine, but a) you couldn't afford it, and b) it's seriously tuned to my requirements, and I have no desire to support it for anyone else's, and c) having paid my ludicrous price (based on my ludicrous £/hr rate) the buyer would probably abuse it by throwing in more money than I consider fair and reasonable (to be a commercially viable venture it probably ought to play with a six or seven figure sum).
Sifting the secondary market automagically has been done for a couple of years now (and complained about over on the official forum for most of that time). I believe mention has even been made here how some of the buy-bots are dumb enough to be persuaded to buy rubbish, albeit only if offered at a discount (as opposed to FC's autobid, which will only buy rubbish at par)."
Leaving aside the charming 'automagically', this post refers to both bid-bots and buy-bots. May I ask all buy-bot owners to consider adding a procedure that would remember the rest of us who do not have buy-bots. This new procedure would start a new thread on this board each time the buy-bot had exhausted the most attractive parts on the secondary market, and would tell us what crumbs it was leaving us :-)
Perhaps the apparently uneven playing field created by the use of buy-bots echoes the story today about yet another banking scandal: Barclays allegedly favouring high frequency traders at the expense of other investors.
"I'd sell mine, but a) you couldn't afford it, and b) it's seriously tuned to my requirements, and I have no desire to support it for anyone else's, and c) having paid my ludicrous price (based on my ludicrous £/hr rate) the buyer would probably abuse it by throwing in more money than I consider fair and reasonable (to be a commercially viable venture it probably ought to play with a six or seven figure sum).
Sifting the secondary market automagically has been done for a couple of years now (and complained about over on the official forum for most of that time). I believe mention has even been made here how some of the buy-bots are dumb enough to be persuaded to buy rubbish, albeit only if offered at a discount (as opposed to FC's autobid, which will only buy rubbish at par)."
Leaving aside the charming 'automagically', this post refers to both bid-bots and buy-bots. May I ask all buy-bot owners to consider adding a procedure that would remember the rest of us who do not have buy-bots. This new procedure would start a new thread on this board each time the buy-bot had exhausted the most attractive parts on the secondary market, and would tell us what crumbs it was leaving us :-)
Perhaps the apparently uneven playing field created by the use of buy-bots echoes the story today about yet another banking scandal: Barclays allegedly favouring high frequency traders at the expense of other investors.
