Question about bidding technique | Buying

tampatranslator · 2023-06-07T14:25:36.507000Z

I have been trying for some time to purchase a particular item. There is another ebayer who has purchased multiple copies of the same item and always swoops in at the last minute. I know this is the same person because they have a very large and specific (ex: 187773) feedback score and the feedback number is identical. This person is clearly willing to pay more for the item that I am and that's fine. What I'm wondering is that he/she always uses the same pattern and I was wondering if there was some kind of strategy involved. They will always place a bid that is $1 higher than the current winning bidder (me), but then will stop and I remain the high bidder until the very end of the auction when I will be ultimately be outbid. Are they just placing an initial low bid low as a placeholder to remember the auction?

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