The OP said it was strange that there would be such a high % of bids with this seller, but there really isn't much strange when you look at the very small sample size. One of these guys only bid on 4 items in the past 30 days and had only 27 bids total. It stands to reason that if he was really interested in this one card more than the other three items that would explain the 14 bids on this auction. Same with the other bidder--only 20 bids total in the past month, seven of which were with Probstein. Hardly eyebrow-raising IMO.
As someone posted, the tap bidding feature on cell phones has made it tougher to gauge a bidder's motives. I have limited to no understanding how it works, but apparently just tapping one key will bump up the bid one small increment, and it may be easier to just keep tapping until you're ahead than to enter a specific max dollar amount on your phone. That would explain how they are entered so rapid-fire also-- not a bot but someone on a cell phone tapping every couple of seconds.
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