Re: Re: [OT] Ebay Diddle?

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It may have been people using sniping software - automatically placing bids
at the last minute to avoid people then coming in and outbidding them.  If
you get a few people doing this, the price can jump quite dramatically at
the end.

It is a useful technique, though.  I used it to secure a couple of PDAs -
the program placed a bid with only 10 seconds to go, meaning no-one had
time
to outbid me.

Mal


----- Original Message -----
From: "drawllimuk" <simonmillward@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:20 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: [OT] Ebay Diddle?




I have had the same done to me. I thought I was being paranoid. I
was bidding on a 7U raid server and winning until five minutes
before the end and the price jump from £40 to over £100. I mean I
know it was a cheap price, but I thought it might have been the
seller not wanting it to go for so cheap. I then found it relisted.
I am of course assuming it is the same one!!! Bloody Cheek!




--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "mouserdrip15" <groups@m...> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Over the weekend I bid on an item. It had a starting price of
£350,
> there we no bidders at all untill I bid in the last 10 mins. Then
> immediately I was continuosly outbid by a zero rated new bidder
until
> I lost the item.
> 5 mins after the auction ended I got a second chance offer from
the
> seller saying the zero rated bidder was a fraud....!
> This seems very much like a underhanded seller forcing his price
up?
> Or am I being parranoid?
>
> Rob