Posted By:
Al CrisafulliAre you sure? I just sold a card to this zero-feedback bidder last week. I got the impression that he was new to Ebay.
In looking at this auction, here's what it looks like to me:
On October 28, the bidder "mariaanneandpete" put in a high bid of $14 on the card, bringing the bid price up to $5.56.
On October 31, the bidder "greencrow72" put in a few bids on the card, but was always the underbidder because "mariaanneandpete" had a high bid of $14. "Greencrow72" put in a few bids, searching for the high bid price, until becoming the high bidder at $15.
Later that same day, derfknew put in a bid of more than $103.49 on the card, and became the high bidder with a bid price of $16. Greencrow72 came back and did the same thing as last time - bidding higher and higher, looking for the high bid price until he got to $70. But derfknew's high bid was well over $100.
A few other bidders got involved and continued to take the card price up - but derfknew set his bid price so high on October 31 that nobody was able to eclipse it.
I'm not sure this is shill bidding as much as it is an example of a high bidder who should have placed a snipe, but instead placed a bid so high that he thought nobody else would possibly go that high. "Greencrow72" stopped bidding at $75, but other people kept running up the bid price for another $28 before giving up.
-Al