Artificially Driving Up Prices?!?!?!?
Has anyone else noticed this? See the attached image. Clearly the same user is repeatedly outbidding himself. Is this not clearly a situation where this person is trying to drive up the price of an item? I cannot imagine any other reason a person would outbid themselves repeatedly. Is there something I am missing here? I am wondering if there is some unethical activity going on behind the scenes in the bidding process. I am sure there is nothing that can be done about it, but this just does not seem right.
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If you bid and don't get high bid, they bid again and again. Until they get the high bid or give up
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Ibtl
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He is not bidding against himself, he's bidding against c***t.
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Why yes, there is something you're missing. It's called proxy bidding. As was pointed out up above, the multiple bids by the same bidder are because someone has a proxy bid higher than he has bid, so he keeps putting in bids. No slight of hand going on here. Proxy bidding....look up the definition on the auction side.
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