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Snipers, Shills, and Sharks: eBay and Human BehaviorBook

by Ken Steiglitz

Who uses, recommends or left Snipers, Shills, and Sharks: eBay and Human Behavior, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Dan Luu
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance and software reliability; has worked on hardware and software at Centaur Technology, Google and Microsoft, and writes at danluu.com.
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Seems designed as an entertaining introduction to auction theory for the layperson.

His 'Programming book recommendations and anti-recommendations' page, a topic-by-topic annotated list restricted to books he has actually read. danluu.com's own index dates the post 10/16; the page carries no day-level date. 40 of the 42 Amazon links on the page carry his affiliate tag (tag=abroaview-20).

2016-10-01·danluu.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.