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March 1st, 2004
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Phantom bids, shill bids, secret signals - a lot more can happen in an auction salesroom.

The two of us are such shameless technological Luddites that until recently we thought that eBay was a honeymoon destination in the Caribbean. By contrast, our client Bowne had developed an Internet technology so complicated that he probably didn’t understand it himself, and made a tremendous fortune in the process. Read more…