Suspicious ebay bidding

[philthy]

Just realised, I should have posted this in here.

philthy said:

I made a bid on a sld 920 laser diffuser. I get the email confirming I'm the high bidder, then shortly after get another saying I've been outbid. then another saying that I'm the winning bidder because a bid has been retracted. I have a look at the bids, and see the bidding taken to just below what I accidentally bid....ahem, after two more bids in quick succession. So I withdrew my bid, and it looks like it was the same person bidding up to the previous bid. Does that make sense??? Anyone else thinks this smells like rodents? Sorry to waffle, have a look SLD 920 Phil

[alexkp]

Report it to ebay as a bidding violation if you are suspicious.

[tallbloke]

I won't bid where the User ID's are hidden.

[darrent]

Yep, it's more common then you think. I have had this a few times and also had quite a few "second chance" bids as the "winner" does not want the goods anymore - more like nobody put in a higher bid then the owner!!

I usually check their feedback and see who has been bidding on their stuff and if there is a common bidder throughout their various items it usually means they have a second account to bid up the price - just avoid them!!

[tallbloke]

Shill bidding is against ebay rules and should be reported. When I first started using ebay I foolishly bid £3.50 on 4 separate auctions for identical compaq keyboards. I ended up paying 3.49 for each one...