Nothing I will post will come as a surprise. But, DO NOT USE THE BIDDING SYSTEM! Sellers allow private bidders. What that means is that the seller can set up private accounts as a guest to eBay to bid. They do this for high dollar items they want to get the most $$$ .
PAY ATTENTION: when you bid, if you see any bidders with a number or a letter with periods in between, don't waste your time. No matter what you do, even if you increase your bid by thousands, you will always lose in the final seconds.
GHOST BIDDING AND SHILL BIDDING.
Ebay allows for ghost bidding. The seller can set up those private accounts, OR, professional collectors and auction houses do the bidding using private bidding. You will see 1...7private or a....n, or 1...4 to begin the bidding. You may see a couple of these typical private identifiers, as you bid your heart out for the item.
Open up two pages or two tabs at the end of the bidding, around 10 minutes. On the page that has the item listed in line order keep refreshing until the final 20 seconds. Go back and forth to the second tab and type in an amount you are willing to increase your bid to, so you can win! HA. That way you can click increase bid as soon as see that the listing was removed on the first page, the system removes it early so these private bidders who outbid you are not outbid by you when you get down to the final 5 seconds.
NOTICE: what happens is that the system will change in 3 seconds before the end and you may think you are the highest bidder. NOPE, the private bid will show up in 1 second and unless you clicked on increase bid at the 4 second mark, you have no chance to win! EVER!
I have followed this and bid on items only to see this same pattern. Rare to win any bid on any high priced or highly sought after item. Bidding on anything with more than 30 bidders is a waste of time. The system is just like Vegas, and every Casino, you won't win!
Who wins? The seller, h is the higher bidder and now can place the item up for auction for a higher price on a legitimate site. You will never ever know just how this private bidding garbage involves. Dirty like many things in our modern world.
