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Profitable Until Deemed Illegal

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Profitable Until Deemed Illegal

(Integrative Question)

Partner: Shannon Angto

 

 

 

1. What is the auction hybrid site previously known as "Telebid.com"?

  • Swoopo.com

2. How does it work?

  • You purchase bids in blocks then place as much bids as you want and hopes you get the item.

3. How many bids are there in pre-packaged blocks?

  • 30

4. How  much does a bid costs?

  • 75 cents

5. What service offered by Swoopo.com bids automatically on the bidder's behalf?

  • Automated BidBuilder Service

6. Swoopo.com is best believed to instigate this certain irrational desicionmaking in human beings. What is it called?

  • Endowment Effect

7. Which feature offered by Swoopo.com only increase the price of the final item by one cent?

  • Penny Auctions

8. Which feature offered by Swoopo.com places the item up for grabs as Swoopo bids?

  • FreeBids Auctions

9. Which feature offered by Swoopo.com makes the "winner" pay nothing for the final item?

  • 100% Off Auctions

10. Which feature offered by Swoopo.com allows actual money to be won by bidders?

  • Cash Auctions

 

 

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(Additional Questions)

 

1. If you were asked to program this example, would you do it? why?

 

     If that is my job, then yes, I will program the said website for the sake of being professional in my chosen field. Of course, there will be questions that I may want to raise just for the sake of being clear of what this program is capable of doing but if they still insist that I make it, even with my objections in terms of the morality issues being affected by this program, then I will do it. Especially if my hands are tied in pursuing this project, I don't think I have the means to speak up about it knowing that different people have different opinions and insisting my beliefs may cause my job to jump off a cliff. My conscience will drown in dirt but I if an open conversation about this program already happened, then I wouldn't have a say in the development stage as much as I want.

 

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

 

     What I said before may aid in the explanation to the right answer to this number aligning it with my moral beliefs because I think it is unethical to even think of developing such project considering the obvious intention of manipulating online users. I know, I haven't tried the website yet but I did witness how fast a Nintendo Wii go from $0.00 to $77.00 in just a matter of minutes and the speed of the bids of online users without even them being fully conscious about it means that Swoopo.com is undoubtedly entertaining and highly addictive. I wouldn't want to be a part of the development of such program if I had the choice because being Christian and being asked to program this will definitely just be a confusing day for me.

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