Nobody cares about ebay shill bidding but

[earlywynnfan]

OK, what would you guys think:

I post my baseball autos during baseball season, so I'm just back to ebay after a long cold winter. My first batch of auto'd BB are closing today. (All cheapies, nothing big.)

This morning I wake up to see two things that I think should bother me:

1) One guy was high bidder on two balls last night retracted both bids -- 5 days after placing them -- because "entered wrong bid amount."

2) But then I notice a different bidder put 14 bids on my Lou Brock ball, with the highest being 10 bucks! He just kept bidding 50 cent increments until he beat out the higher bidder. If I were the other guy, I'd bail on my auctions because it looks like I'm shill bidding!!

Should I block either of these yahoos??

Ken

[howard38]

I don't know about the first scenario but the second just sounds like a guy who placed a max bid.

[earlywynnfan]

Originally Posted by howard38

I don't know about the first scenario but the second just sounds like a guy who placed a max bid.

No, it shows up in my bid list as 14 individual bids, 50 cents each.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by earlywynnfan

No, it shows up in my bid list as 14 individual bids, 50 cents each.

I rarely use eBay but don't they still have the tap were it automatically raised your bid every time you click on it? I know I have used it before.

[howard38]

Originally Posted by earlywynnfan

No, it shows up in my bid list as 14 individual bids, 50 cents each.

Wouldn't it show up that way if he had a max bid? Each time he was outbid an automatic bid would be made so long as it didn't exceed his max. In either case I don't see anything wrong with it unless he doesn't pay for the card.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by earlywynnfan

OK, what would you guys think:

I post my baseball autos during baseball season, so I'm just back to ebay after a long cold winter. My first batch of auto'd BB are closing today. (All cheapies, nothing big.)

This morning I wake up to see two things that I think should bother me:

1) One guy was high bidder on two balls last night retracted both bids -- 5 days after placing them -- because "entered wrong bid amount."

2) But then I notice a different bidder put 14 bids on my Lou Brock ball, with the highest being 10 bucks! He just kept bidding 50 cent increments until he beat out the higher bidder. If I were the other guy, I'd bail on my auctions because it looks like I'm shill bidding!!

Should I block either of these yahoos??

Ken

First guy I would block. Second guy is a normal small increment bidder. Pretty common since the beginning of Ebay. Nothing suspicious IMO.