Ebay question

Hi,

I am a newbie using Ebay so would be grateful if anyone would comment
whether the following is normal:

I am interested in an item on ebay that doesn't seem to have a reserve
price. It had a low first bid (99p) which was the winning bid for a
few days. Suddenly someone put a high next bid (£10.01). However if I
bid I just enter the maximum price and it only increments the actual
bid by a small amount.

My question is: Why/how would someone bid up by this much in one go?

Cheers,
M

 

The first bidder had his maximum of just under a tenner , but where he is
the only bidder then the current bid will be the start price.

Bidder two comes along and sticks in a maximum of say 15 quid. His current
bid will jump up to the minimum needed to beat the previous high bidder , in
this case just over a tenner.


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The seller, posing as a buyer ?

 

Why don't you ask in a fucking ebay newsgroup?

 

To be fair I can understand why the guy might be confused.

 

Ben Blaney wrote

Then what we do with our font of all knowledge reputation?

 

just ask Jeremy!

 

Thanks for the info. I get it now

M

 

Prolly 'cause there's more fucking ebay posts in this ng than the rest of
fucking usenet.

HTH. HANFD.

Soy

 

That doesn't make it right.

Who are you anyway? Never seen you post before.

 

I don't think anything could.

You need to look outside the clique(tm) more often.

Soy

 

Alternatively you could try to be interesting.

 

"Interesting Green", humm has a certain ring to it.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, mups said:

Sounds like "purest green" that can be moulded and fashioned into
jewellery.

 

Whinging Courier wrote

Someone has finally made enough Green to actually make jewelery?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache said:

Yes, and it looks like a "lump of snot"

 

It was only a nugget - barely enough for a PA.

Soy

 

Words we could all live by...

Soy

 

Maybe he's a biker. You're getting very twitchy nowadays.

 

I really don't want the endless ebay crap in here, tbh.