Integrative Questions:

Coding Horror

1. What is swoopo.com?

-       It’s an online raffle site or auction site that charges a fee whenever you bid.

2. How is the operation being done in swoopo.com?

-       The user can purchase bids in pre-packaged blocks of at least 30 and each bids will costs the user 75 cents with no discount.

-       The price will be increased by 15 cents each bids and increases the auction time by 15 seconds.

-       Then, once it’s done, you will pay the final price.

3. What are the things that swoopo offers?

-       Penny auctions

-       FreeBids auctions

-       100% off auctions

-       Cash auctions

4. How much is the cost of the bids?

-       75 cents

5. What do you call on the auction wherein they said the user will win at the end and trying to pretend that they don’t run a gambling site?

-       Cash auction          

6. How does Penny auction works?

-        Each bead increases the price of the final item by 1 cent.

7. What is AutomatedBidButler service?

-       BidButler lets you bid automatically even though you’re not in the front of your pc.

8. How long does the auction extended?

-       The auction is extended up to 15 seconds whenever there’s a bid at the final seconds.

9. What is an endowment effect?

-       It means irrational decision making.

10. How does Help under Delivery and Shipping works?

-       Help under Delivery and Shipping is their way in shipping what they called “equivalent” items. Here, they explained that in some occasions, they can no longer able to source such detailed item in the auction. Thus, they will call the client and offer equivalent items.

11.  If you were asked to program this example would you do it? Why?

-       I think it’s interesting to do or program it. But in the contrary, I find it difficult to program this since I don’t have enough knowledge to do this kind of game. Aside from that, I think it would be illegal if we continue doing this kind of game because the game itself concludes that something is wrong or some part this was bad.

12. Is it right to program this example? Why?

-       For me, the answer would be yes. We can program it but the only thing that would be a problem is on how to code it. And since it’s an auction site, for me it would be hard for me to code this kind of game. But for the people whose passion is to program different kinds of application, it would be easy for them to code it.