alt Hacker NewsIsn't an auction itself a giant dark pattern?
Also, ebay mixes auction with buy it now in the same item.
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Centigonal • 08/01/2025
Auctions are great price discovery mechanisms. Nothing wrong with that IMO
theoreticalmal • 08/01/2025
Only if you consider voluntary interpersonal economics a dark pattern
Buy-It-Now combined with an auction is exactly like selling a car listed with O.B.O. (e g. ”$5000 or best offer"). This doesn't seem like a dark pattern to me for either side of the transaction.