The sniper bidding has been covered but there's also a practice known as shill
bidding. I don't know but eBay may have a way of preventing this or
discouraging it or maybe not at all, but basically some bidders (friends,
family, etc.) are in cahoots with the seller and if it looks like they aren't
going to get the price they want or maybe in an attempt to create buying
hysteria the shill will bid up the price to see if they can get someone to
bite at a higher price. Usually this can happen all during the bidding not
just at the end like sniper bidding...but it depends on who the shill thinks
they're bidding against...e.g. if they think they have a live one they bid a
lot of times but only enough to be the high bid. Buyer beware as always.
Bud
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----- Original Message -----
From: john doe
To: 6pack@autox.team.net
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 6:35 AM
Subject: [6pack] ebay
just some fustration of how when you bid on something for a week and there
are no other bidders then all of a sudden all these bidders show up to drive
up the price some gimmic
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