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Old 11-22-2025, 05:11 AM
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Yep, i'm g... in that bid history.

The bidder at 152.50 couldnt have nid before me because i was the first bidder. When i placed my bid it showed no bids. I was the first bid at 99 cents.
I dont think it could be a snipe app, because that would just look like another bid and it wouldn't be 5 hours before mine.

I've seen soemthing similar on Pristine where i bid on a pennant that had no bids....and then i was automatically outbid even though my bid was the first bid. I just stopped bidding there because it seemed iffy.

I'm now seeing this on ebay. Something doesn't feel right to me.
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Old 11-22-2025, 07:11 AM
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Other bidder has a DeLorean with a flux capacitor.
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Bravo, sir!
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Anytime you see a flux capacitor you know you need to be careful. Widgets fall into that category in certain circumstances.
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The whole situation is really weird. A quick look at a world time zone map tells me that I have bid from around 18 time zones and never had anything even remotely similar happen.
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Anytime you see a flux capacitor you know you need to be careful. Widgets fall into that category in certain circumstances.
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Likewise, a rotating basel. They can be very nasty.
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Yep, i'm g... in that bid history.

The bidder at 152.50 couldnt have nid before me because i was the first bidder. When i placed my bid it showed no bids. I was the first bid at 99 cents.
I dont think it could be a snipe app, because that would just look like another bid and it wouldn't be 5 hours before mine.

I've seen soemthing similar on Pristine where i bid on a pennant that had no bids....and then i was automatically outbid even though my bid was the first bid. I just stopped bidding there because it seemed iffy.

I'm now seeing this on ebay. Something doesn't feel right to me.
Are you bidding from the UK, as your signature suggests? I have noticed from time to time that timestamps are sometimes based on the location of the system server. For instance, I'm in central time zone USA, and when dealing with a website based on the west coast, timestamps sometimes appear relative to their time zone.

Can you post a link to that auction, so we can see what the bidding timestamps look like to us in the USA?
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Old 11-22-2025, 09:15 AM
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Did the auction originally have a hidden reserve of $150?
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Are you bidding from the UK, as your signature suggests? I have noticed from time to time that timestamps are sometimes based on the location of the system server. For instance, I'm in central time zone USA, and when dealing with a website based on the west coast, timestamps sometimes appear relative to their time zone.
This is the only thing I have read that even seems plausible. Definitely quite strange. I do not think Ebay is "shilling" - in a worst case scenario some type of glitch.
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Yes, im in the UK and using the ebay app set to the US region. Its a good suggestion about the timezone for the servers but ebay normally shows the times absolutely not by timezone. For the more technical amongst us, I'd expect ebay to be standardizing times to UTC and then converting the the local time for each user. I think I'll need to raise this with eBay for them to investigate.

I had thought about a hidden reserve too but that would show as reserve not met rather tha a competing bid. The the other bidder isn't the same at the one who listed the card. Is it possible that a large seller has some way of rigging the system?
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Old 11-22-2025, 11:36 AM
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Does the auction show a cancelled bid? The high bidder could have bid an extremely high amount to feel out your bid and then cancelled his bid immediately. He would then know you were at $150 and bid above that.
It would only take two bids to get to $152.50.
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