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Introduction

Online auctions are marvelous things; bringing people together from all over the world, to sell things amongst themselves, and take a cut off the top. Everyone has something that someone else wants, so this idea is golden - and we all know how well Ebay is doing.

So now you want to build an auction, but don't know where to start? There is a lot of thought and engineering that goes into such a development, so you'll need to start out on the right foot. We'll show you the underlying database structures and how to make things work for a peer to peer auction.

This article will 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

How to Make Your Own Ebay
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