Shill Bidding on a Charity Auction

[warwickhunt]

I'm always dubious when the highest bidder is £1 short of a nice round figure like £400 (why would you bid £399; if you 'wanted' to win, that's just chuffin stupidity)... especially when there have only been two bidders all bar the first bid!

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[Ou7shined]

Your powers of deduction are unparallelled Holmes.

[tauzero]

I can't see a £399 in the bid history.

[warwickhunt]

[quote name='tauzero' post='829778' date='May 6 2010, 04:32 PM']I can't see a £399 in the bid history.[/quote]

The day before the auction ended the highest bid was £399...

[Stu-khag]

intriguing-
Is it just me who when ebay for say, that same bass and didn't really want to go above 400 quid but really wanted it, I'd have bid something like £403.76?

[warwickhunt]

[quote name='Stu-khag' post='832074' date='May 9 2010, 12:07 PM']intriguing-
Is it just me who when ebay for say, that same bass and didn't really want to go above 400 quid but really wanted it, I'd have bid something like £403.76?[/quote]

Exactly! no-one in there right mind who is bidding on eBay and wanted to buy something with say a £400 budget would bid £399; even a novice would bid £400 and those with the slightest savvy would bid a couple of quid (and pence) over that. Strange though that it isn't now showing in the bidding pattern!