Suspicious bidding by same bidder
I won something on eBay then checked the bidding history and seen a period where one person bidding against themselves to drive the bid up.
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I won something on eBay then checked the bidding history and seen a period where one person bidding against themselves to drive the bid up.
monica-sells
·2 years agobidding against yourself?
that is also known as a proxy bid.....if you care to post the item number, any number of knowledgeable members will be happy to examine the bid history and explain it to you......
redmodelt
·2 years agoBidding against yourself does not drive the bid up except you have to beat their proxy bid. If the opening bid was $10 and I bid $50, it would still show $10 with one bid. If you came along and bid less then the $50 you would have gotten a message to bid again. You would then have to bid at least $51 to beat the $50 proxy bid. In the meantime before you bid, I could rase the proxy bid to $100 and it would still show $10 because I was the only bidder.