I'm being severely shilled :D

Broadstruck

I placed two courtesy bids earlier today on the same sellers items which are in a 3 days auction listed under the wrong category, with poor title info, poor photos, and poor descriptions.

I've now been pushed 8 & 17 exact $2.00 increments on both by what I feel is the seller secondary account.

I'm not upset as if I win it would be like buying them at a price I'd have no issue paying since properly listed they are worth 3-5 times my max bids.

Will be fun to see how this turns out!

airplanenut

For what it's worth, I'll occasionally see some new bidder bid up some of my items with lots of bids evenly spaced at small increments. I don't like those guys because I don't want the appearance of having a shill, but I can definitely confirm real bidders to exist with those types of bidding patterns.

Broadstruck

Oh I forgot there's now a $1 or $2 bid increment button... So you think this could be someone legit?

The bidding pattern makes no sense though.

airplanenut

I've seen anywhere from 10-40 consecutive bids in $1 to $2 increments. It definitely happens.

Broadstruck

Well I won one and a serious bidder came in in the last seconds but still got a MS62 for VF/XF money so it's good.

The other a few serious bidder came in and I was outbid.

Still feel on that one with better everything especially pics the seller left as much as $250 on the table...

Maybe even more if sold at Stacks/Bowers instead of eBay.

Pokermandude

It's probably legit. There are certainly people out there who do not understand that if you big a much bigger number than the current bid, that it will only "one up" the next highest bid. They could believe they'd be held to their maximum bid even if no one else has bid near that amount.

TwoSides2aCoin

Good for the seller. Good for you. A mild "you suck", as you can make a quick $250.

TigersFan2

Some people never just place their high bid and instead will just continuously bid the next increment until they're either the high bidder or they've hit their max.

TopographicOceans

Maybe your bidding against your twin with the same idea

When you start a listing you can type in what you are selling and eBay uses that to find the category and uses it as the default title.

So a new seller could type in coin and use that as a title. If you can find one that's a PCGS MS65 you can do quite well

CoinJunkie

I've seen (usually low feedback number) bidders do this on my auctions, and it wasn't me.
My theory is they want to give other bidders the appearance that the seller is shilling his
own auction to discourage bidding competition, but it's just a theory. Maybe some people
just like to hit the increment button 20 times. Who knows? In any case, I've never felt it had
much of an effect on the final price realized. People who want the item will place their max
bid and let the chips fall where they may.

thisnamztaken

<< <i> People who want the item will place their max
bid and let the chips fall where they may. >>





(And usually with 2-5 secs. left in the auction, i.e. by sniping it).

Broadstruck

<< <i>Maybe your bidding against your twin with the same idea >>



Maybe as I thought it would be a bloodbath and felt sorry for the seller.

I also didn't think I'd be awake to bid in the last few seconds as I was really tired earlier.

keyman64

Congrats on picking one of them up! I normally just place a single max bid in the closing seconds. Most of the time I win but sometimes I don't and that's okay I guess.

winky

Bid your max and leave it alone.

LindeDad

Thats what every shill is hoping for if he can't find more than one bidder.

LanceNewmanOCC

<< <i>The bidding pattern makes no sense though. >>



via ebay vs human behavior, perhaps it does.
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oih82w8

I did not think that you could bid on your own items.

clarkbar04

Well, lets see this thing already!

LindeDad

<< <i>I did not think that you could bid on your own items. >>




As long as you are different accounts on different networks how can they tell it's the same persons? Unless you tell them.

bestday

<< <i>Some people never just place their high bid and instead will just continuously bid the next increment until they're either the high bidder or they've hit their max. >>



These dollar bidders run up the bids at a buck a time to hit the high bidder to get his bid out in open

Lakesammman

Still better to snipe.

Broadstruck

<< <i>Well, lets see this thing already! >>



Hold your horses I should be here by the end of the week.

The sellers pics where so bad I bid based on the NGC Certification Scan which wasn't too hot either but gave me a better idea