[meteorite-list] Is EBAY bidding fixed?

From: GREG LINDH <geeg48_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:00:12 -0700
Message-ID: <BAY118-DAV116D6DAAD2FB12138E383AC95E0_at_phx.gbl>

       Hi Dave,

    I don't think my analysis of the EBAY situation is silly at all. There
is no reason to artificially up the price of an item. What I do is wait
until the last 30 seconds or so and then pop in and place a bid. I have
always won, but unfortunately I pay a higher price than necessary because
someone has bid over and over again *for no apparent reason*. They're not
scaring anyone away by doing this. They just make the item cost a ton more.
    Again, I ask why?

    Greg Lindh




----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Freeman mjwy" <dfreeman at fascination.com>
To: "GREG LINDH" <geeg48 at msn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Is EBAY bidding fixed?


> Don't be so silly, the person is raising their bid so that if you bid, you
> won't out bid them. If you want to win the auction, you have to bid higher
> than their bid.
> For fun, start out and bid very low, bid again, bid four or five times to
> what is your maximum bid. It will let other bidders THINK you are serious
> about winning...............OR............THAT other bidders may think
> you are fixing your bid....
> Dave F.
>
> GREG LINDH wrote:
>
> To all,
>
> I am new to EBAY and to meteorite collecting. I have purchased 13
> meteorites total. I've gotten most of them by bidding on EBAY. I've
> noticed that many times someone will bid for an item and continually bid
> the
> item up even though nobody is bidding against them. They may start out by
> bidding $10.00 for an item, then the same person raises the price to
> $30.00,
> then $50.00, then $80.00, etc., etc. They artificially and unnecessarily
> raise the price so that the item finally sells for a *much* higher price
> than it would have gone for if this hadn't been done.
> Either the bidder is a moron or he is working with the seller to up
> the
> price.
> Can anyone explain this phenomenon to me?
>
> Greg Lindh
>
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Received on Thu 12 Apr 2007 01:00:12 AM PDT