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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
Non sequitur. One, what does that have to do with the bidding pattern, if I really wanted a card on ebay the last thing I would do was keep running it up and bidding against myself six hours after it was listed. Two, with PWCC it was by no means limited to special cards. Three, it seemed very frequently the bids were placed by the same bidders, and or bidders with huge numbers of retractions.
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I'm just relaying my experiences as an observer and a bidder. Whenever I'm bidding on a card that has been run up early, it is almost always a card with remarkable eye appeal or something otherwise very difficult to find.
I'm sure there are other circumstances where cards get bid up quickly, but I don't pay attention to the modern side of the hobby much, so I don't encounter most of the shill bidding and other shenanigans. Though surely some of that exists in vintage as well, just not nearly as much IMO.