Re: eBay WTH?

[wood@futility.com]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:14:14 -0700 (PDT), a2fan@hotmail.com wrote:

>On Aug 20, 10:27 am, Charlie Springer <R...@regnirps.com> wrote:
>
>> Ambitious seller. No bids at $600? What;s the matter folks! get in there.
>
>I show it having 12 bids.
There is also something fishy about the bids. When you look at the
bids with the "automated bids" turned on it shows that the last four
bids were all by m**r for $300, $400, $500, and $600 with all of them
placed within 1 minute. The five before that were all by a**a fir $50
(the last one to meet/beat an automatic bid), $70, $99, and $110. a**a
also placed two prior bids. All of a**a's bids were placed a little
over an hour before m**r's bids and all of a**a's bids were placed
within two minutes from start to finish.

Assuming that a**a's bids were legitimate, then we must assume that
the additional bids were guard bids. However we should not be able to
see the additional bids by m**r beyond the single increment above
a**a's highest bid. Since the bid increment for $150 is $2.50, we
should see one entry for m**r at $152.50.

Just my seven cents worth.