Perfectly acceptable as long as you're willing to take the risk of vendictive bidders - i.e. ones that make two or three accounts and just prevent the auction from ending.
I personally don't eBay that much and when I do I take a look at 'Buy It Now' before anything else. Sure I may spend more than I would otherwise, but if all I'm attempting to do is get something cheaper than retail, I've been successful in my quest and that's all there is to it.
If this type of legislation gets adopted internationally, it will make things easier for Google in China - China could buy out the bandwidth from underneath information they want to censor. I can see it now:
Dear ISP,
We here at the People's Republic of China would like for you to stop allowing bandwidth to sites which we don't like (including anything nice about Taiwan). If you don't, you and your native country will no longer be receiving all those nifty items with the gold "Made in China" stickers on them, and if you think that's bad - there are a whole bunch of stuff we make that we don't bother putting the stickers on.
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Perfectly acceptable as long as you're willing to take the risk of vendictive bidders - i.e. ones that make two or three accounts and just prevent the auction from ending. I personally don't eBay that much and when I do I take a look at 'Buy It Now' before anything else. Sure I may spend more than I would otherwise, but if all I'm attempting to do is get something cheaper than retail, I've been successful in my quest and that's all there is to it.
If this type of legislation gets adopted internationally, it will make things easier for Google in China - China could buy out the bandwidth from underneath information they want to censor. I can see it now:
Dear ISP,
We here at the People's Republic of China would like for you to stop allowing bandwidth to sites which we don't like (including anything nice about Taiwan). If you don't, you and your native country will no longer be receiving all those nifty items with the gold "Made in China" stickers on them, and if you think that's bad - there are a whole bunch of stuff we make that we don't bother putting the stickers on.
Have a nice day!
Sincerely,
PRC