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Valued Member
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
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Over half the bids are the high bidder bidding the exact same amount. I'm guessing theyre using an auto bid program
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Valued Member
United States
279 Posts |
If you click on the bids, you can see that it is mostly one guy who is EXTREMELY unsure of what he wants to bid.  |
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Valued Member
Australia
215 Posts |
that's a heck of a lot of bids from the one person.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7840 Posts |
It's a nice coin...but not that nice.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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A bit like some of the spurious practices used in the real estate auction market.
Sometimes, these practices can have counter productive results for the seller, in which I would consider to be a very satisfying result, IF the seller is doing this.
Pity, It looks to be a very nice coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's nothing, he has 152 bids on a 3 cent piece.
He probably thinks he can discourage additional bids by implying each successive bid is $1 more, but he could be bidding 1 cent more each time and ultimately lose to a snipe placed days ago.
I gotta remember to check when it's over.
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Bedrock of the Community
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IF the seller is doing this. I suspect that a lot of sellers do that to make the item look more popular and get people to bid more |
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 United States
227 Posts |
Guys I don't follow. Are you trying to say the same person is entering $85 repeatedly and ebay is counting each time he does that as a new bid? Why would they count redundant bids though? Or what is it? |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Donkrx thats exactly what happened for the last 40 or so bid and that person had bid probably 80 times total. Not sure why it keeps getting counted though to be honest
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Valued Member
United States
227 Posts |
Yeah, they need to fix that then. Not hard I would think.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Donk yea it has to be a glitch of some sort. I think its an auto bid program that does it
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Locked
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Donkrx thats exactly what happened for the last 40 or so bid and that person had bid probably 80 times total. Not sure why it keeps getting counted though to be honest Nope, not exactly what happened. The bidder bids a few cents more each time which raises his proxy bid. The bid amounts that show on that list are not the actual bid amount, they are the current winning bid. Bidders do this to scare away other bidders, it gives the illusion of a bidding war. ebay needs to stop counting them as bids unless there is another bidder in between, especially since it's costing them money. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sold for $129.04 by another bidder...shill bidding anyone?
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
348 Posts |
I was watching this coin and I almost emailed him to say that the coin has been cleaned the cloth scratches are very evident if you blow the picture up .. he has tried to angle the coin so you cannot see them ..   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Not shill bidding at all, IMO. More like novice bidding.
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Posted 06/15/2012 9:38 pm
