Ebay - Sellers Can Bid Their Own Coins?

I usually watch the bidding for days to see the patterns of the other bidders. I'll put up my bit in the last few seconds of the auction.

I very often see how "buyers" make bets on a lot at the last minute. All 7 days that the goods are at the auction, there are either no bids at all, or 1-2 bids, but as soon as I place a bid and become a leader, I am immediately interrupted and the goods go for the money that I am not ready to spend. Perhaps there really are buyers who are ready to pay more by my standards, I do not know. But it looks suspicious every time. I am especially outraged when I am interrupted and a bid is made at the last second. I think ebay needs to do something about this.

I don't understand the problem, it went for more than you're willing to pay, doesn't matter when, it still went for more than you wanted to pay.

I'm with KenKat - why drive up the price? I always wait until the last seconds. I don't always win, but most times I do.

i have not been on ebay in weeks , today I went there just to window shop and had some good laughs , I saw a IKE going for $2400 . nothing special just good money . saw a SBA dollar at $500. I can not believe ebay allows this, new buyers on ebay beware .

No, I only bid in the last few seconds. If the current price is $35, I will put in a bid of $60 with seconds to go in the auction if that's what ai am willing to pay. If the person winning at $35 had a maximum bid of $50, I get it for the next increment (say $52.50). Or $37.50 if no one else bids higher.

If someone bids $70, they wanted it more than me so they win.

There was a recent news article that ebay suspended the largest card seller on the platform due to alleged shill bidding. So, it is definitely a thing and definitely against the rules.
But, I would like to clarify, the real shill bidding is when you drive up a price of your item (or your friend's item on their behalf) and DON'T win it. It is the art of knowing how high the highest bidder is willing to go (or has already put in a max bid for) and then making them pay the closest to that amount. Sometimes, accidentally, you will win the auction, and in those cases, there is a small side benefit to the shill bidding. That is the recorded sale of that item at a higher price. But, that is not the intended benefit.
To be clear, I would not and have not engaged in such activities. The mere fact that they are against ebay's policy, which you agreed to by selling on ebay, makes it unethical.
I struggle to define, though, what is the real issue with it. If a person bids $100 on an item that is worth $75, that is really their problem. Nobody can force you to bid more than you want to. I lose auctions all the time to people who bid higher than I did. I don't allow that to change my max bid willingness. I am willing to pay what I determined the value of the item to be.
I think though, that the unethical part is that you are misrepresenting your item by calling it an auction. Auction implies that you are willing to sell it for whatever price it settles at. If you call something an auction and then drive up the price that seems dishonest.
Again, it is sufficiently wrong on account of ebay's policy and I would never engage in such behavior. But, defining the ethics for me is an exercise is moral introspection.