[meteorite-list] Is EBAY bidding fixed?

[GREG LINDH]

       Hi Darren,

    I appreciate the link that you gave me which explains the bidding system 
on EBAY.  I'll have to go back and check out EBAY more carefully.  Perhaps I 
thought this has occurred and maybe I was wrong.  I'll go and take a better 
look at it.
    Thanks for not "shooting me" and for giving a kind and thoughtful reply.

    Regards,
              Greg Lindh



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
To: "meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Is EBAY bidding fixed?


> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:04:05 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >    My question still has not seemed to be answered.  My concern is about
> >someone who bids over and over with no apparent competition.  They single
> >handedly raise the price from $10.00 to $30.00 to $60.00 to $80.00, 
> >etc.....
>
> It is not possible for someone-- with nobody else bidding against him-- to 
> in
> any way change the price from the opening price (in a non-reserve 
> auction).
> Let's say there is an item with a starting bid of 99 cents.  Only one 
> person
> bids on it.  He could modify his bid 1500 times and the auction price 
> isn't
> going to go above 99 cents if nobody is bidding against him.  And, even 
> after
> the close of the auction, you'll never see what his maximum bid price was, 
> only
> what the auction closed at.  What you are describing doesn't happen.
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