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[captain]

If I had a limited supply of things I wanted to sell, and a HUGE demand that crushed the server when I did a first-come-first-served sale, I think I'd switch to a POST ONE TIME thread, where everyone interested got ONE post to list what he wants.  Then I'd randomly select posts (using a true random number generator like lavarand  ;-) and fill orders in that random order.  But, that's just me; what do I know?  ;-P

[whiskerBox]

If I had a limited supply of things I wanted to sell, and a HUGE demand that crushed the server when I did a first-come-first-served sale, I think I'd switch to a POST ONE TIME thread, where everyone interested got ONE post to list what he wants.  Then I'd randomly select posts (using a true random number generator like lavarand  ;-) and fill orders in that random order.  But, that's just me; what do I know?  ;-P

Well if he was gonna do that, he might as well just charge $100 a key and people would pay it no questions asked.