Outing my own auction lot.

[timn1]

Obviously a gomer with way too much time on his hands.

[D. Bergin]

All you have to do is keep on hitting next bid increment each time. Takes about 15 seconds to place that many bids.

[TanksAndSpartans]

It could be a strategy - scare away bidders by posing as a schill?

[glchen]

Brian, can you unscramble the bidder_id for the 484 feedback bidder?

[OldEnglishD]

Could the bidder be trying to sniff out the reserve price?

[bdk1976]

Originally Posted by OldEnglishD

Could the bidder be trying to sniff out the reserve price?

My thoughts as well...

[Brian Van Horn]

Originally Posted by glchen

Brian, can you unscramble the bidder_id for the 484 feedback bidder?

Gary,

From my end I can see the handle/user name of the bidder. Where it puts me in a weird position is if I give out the name because the guy could simply have a method of behavior. I do not know if this is a shill, but if it is it is not on my end. I'm outing my auction which is within my power, but outing that guy brings up a very gray area.

[packs]

I don't think it raises the bid every time you bid if you're bidding against yourself. Basically you're just increasing your max bid, unless I'm wrong. He's just trying to up the bid numbers in an attempt to scare away bidders, at least that's my theory.

[bobbyw8469]

Either way, the reserve is not met. If this was a regular, for real .99 cent auction then that would be one thing. Seeing as how this is a reserve auction, then all bets are off.

[glchen]

Originally Posted by Brian Van Horn

Gary,

From my end I can see the handle/user name of the bidder. Where it puts me in a weird position is if I give out the name because the guy could simply have a method of behavior. I do not know if this is a shill, but if it is it is not on my end. I'm outing my auction which is within my power, but outing that guy brings up a very gray area.

Why is it a gray area? If this were a PWCC auction, we would be requesting that the bidder id's be outed. If we know the bidder id, we can see if this is a common action that this bidder does in case other sellers have seen this same bidder id in their auctions.

[glchen]

To add on to my previous post, there was a time when ebay did not scramble the bidder ids at all in the past. And I thought that most agreed that it was a bad thing when ebay decided to start this id scrambling. So, I don't know why it's an issue to out these id's.

[Brian Van Horn]

The gray area is his privacy. I out him and I may have repercussions. One other note: he is also high bidder on my 1932 US Caramel Cochrane lot.

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by glchen

If this were a PWCC auction, we would be requesting that the bidder id's be outed.

Requesting to whom? Brent? I wasn't aware that PWCC provided the identities of its bidders to the Net 54 community.

[chernieto]

Originally Posted by Brian Van Horn

Gary,

From my end I can see the handle/user name of the bidder. Where it puts me in a weird position is if I give out the name because the guy could simply have a method of behavior. I do not know if this is a shill, but if it is it is not on my end. I'm outing my auction which is within my power, but outing that guy brings up a very gray area.

I think it shows by simply looking at the bidder activity it is very difficult
( Impossible) to correctly out an auction as shilled. If you didn't shill the auction- then nobody did.....but if this was someone else's ( PWCC )auction the cries of Shill bidding would be loud......hmmm! If I was selling I would be happy with this bidder...