Chris Payne
September 11, 2000
Everyone knows Ebay is raking into the big bucks. Peer to Peer networking are where it ' s at, and auctions can
Make some serious. While finding the items to sell and attracting people to your auction are up for you,
This article'll show you the How to build a auction that actually works.
Introduction
Online auctions are marvelous things; Bringing people together to sell things
Amongst themselves, and take a cut to the top. Everyone has something that someone else wants
Idea are Golden-and we all know how-to Ebay is doing.
So now you are want to build a auction, but don ' t know where to start? There is a lot of thought and
Engineering that goes into such a development and so you'll need to "start out on" right foot. We ' ll show
You are the underlying database structures and the things work for a peer to peer auction.
This article would assume you have a good understanding of Active Server Pages and VBScript, and database
Methods.
Contents:
How do I start?
The Auction Database
The Logic
Managing Bids
Resolving Bids
Determining A Winner
Considerations
Conclusions
