Apparently eBay users in Australia are concerned about sniping (last minute bidding). I was interviewed for a radio report on the subject by Hagar Cohen, which you can hear here (in Australian): Snipe bidding: the dark side of online shopping.
My papers on the subject, with Axel Ockenfels and Dan Ariely are here.
A discussion of the sniping phenomenon in conjunction with eBay and auctions in general can be found in the very nice book by Ken Steiglitz, Snipers, Shills, & Sharks, Princeton U. Press, 2007.
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