[meteorite-list] Is EBAY bidding fixed?

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:10:49 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <562401.24274.qm_at_web53205.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Dear Greg and others,
  Your suspect bidder may have a different bidding
strategy than you. Not everyone can be available to
bid a the last seconds of an auction and not everyone
uses bidding software. Some people bid up their own
bids several times to increase the number of bids to
reduce the number of potential bidders. Each strategy
has its advantage and its dis-advantage; if you are
really wanting something you have to outbid other
bidders otherwise you don`t win the auction.
  Best at eBay, Dirk Ross...Tokyo

--- GREG LINDH <geeg48 at msn.com> 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 01:10:49 AM PDT