Items being "bid up" on Ebay to inflate the price

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Look at these 6000's which are local to me, and then look at the bids. If you click on the actual bidder you get a percentage of how much they have bid on, with this specific seller.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360873085268?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Very strange that his top two bidders have big 25-34% of their total bids this month, on this lucky chap alone! He must have some really good stuff, or very generous friendsErm..

Not so sure. Isn't it something to do with bidding by proxy? I mean that they are automatic bids generated when another bidder joins, whose bid is lower than the original's undisclosed max bid. Someone increasing the bid by 50p each time to try and be the new current winner would cause this.

 

While its not unheard of, like above its normally just ebays automated response on how the bidding process works.

Although, like you said, if same couple of bidders are bidding against all of his items but never actually win the final bid.. it does sound a little shady.

 

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