I would like to see a reverse auction website, a reverse eBay, if you will. Let’s say, if you want a copy of used book “Chemistry explained”, you just start a reverse auction of it, people with the book may compete to sell you the book. Maybe.

It all started when I have finished a child education eBook
Mind Games for the Math-Challenged. I want to have a native English speaker to proofread it and as
I was able to auction it off at eBay, It occurred naturally to me that I would like to find the service at eBay. However, as the bid always go up at eBay, it does not looks like that is what I really wanted. After some thought, I come up with a what I thought to be a smart hack to get it auctioned on eBay. I included the eBay list below. I had more than 500
visits but no bid. Maybe people thought the $50 max that I set is too low. Maybe people do not comfortable with the hack. I really don’t know. Anyway, If you think a reverse auction site is a good idea, please digg this. If there are enough people
interested, maybe eBay will implement it.

My original Ebay list:

I have written an ebook on child education, "Mind Games for the Math-challenged". you can preview it here
http://huoyangao.com/ttt/MindGames.pdf
I would like to have a native English speaker to go over it to fix grammar errors. And I look to find the service here at ebay. However, since bids at ebay always go up, obviously that is not what I wanted.
What I wanted is a reverse auction, which ebay currently does not support. so we need to hack it a little bit. here is how it will work: The max I will pay for the service will be $50. what you bid will be subtracted from the $50. so if you bid $20 and you win, you will proofread the paper and I will then pay you $50 - $20 = $30. To be more legally accurate, you are buying the right to proofreading the paper for $50. If you have any questions, email me at
huayangao@gmail.com This may well be the first reverse auction at ebay, so maybe people will be attempted to bid just for the fun of it. Serious bids only, please. Any bids above $45 will not be considered serious and will be canceled.

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