I always hated bidders that put out multiple bids, like this one for Wendell Carson's Fightn' Bull with oosic handles. You know the ones that put out 3 or 4 bids, one right after the other.
Here is the auction that ended. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... &rd=1&rd=1
Is it my imagination or did this guy bid against himself and upped the winning price by $49.00
Hukk
I would guess that there was a reserve price and the bidder had to keep going up until he met the reserve.
The seller has other items with a reserve price set.
Just my opinion.
Tom
Your probably right. I put it on a watch list about a week ago, I usually like to watch his knives. I didn't remeber a reserve (no surprise there) but I do recall that on his more exotic scales there is usually a reserve.
It just looked really strange when I went to the bidding history page.
Not that this happened in this instance, but I believe there are also software programs that do automated bidding. A few weeks ago I noticed on one of my auctions that there were 14 bids by the same person, all spaced three seconds apart, and each bid raised the prior bid by exactly one dollar. Far as I can tell, it's programmed to stop once you either reach a predetermined limit, or become the highest bidder.
You can't really bid against yourself on ebay because even if you bid something up when you are already the high bidder, it doesn't increase the price. It just raises your highest bid in the event others try to outbid you. The exception of course is when there is a reserve, as it appears was the case in this instance.
This tactic does seem rather odd, or am I missing something? 
