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How to tell if someone is purposely bidding up an eBay auction?

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Quad

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Here's the bid history of a digicam i was interested in. Notice in the last 20 minutes there were a bunch of bids from people with zero feedback, and even their user names look suspicious to me since each one has a 4 digits at the end (maybe auto generated?). What do you think? The seller has great feedback and has been responsive to my emails....and I don't see this happening in any of his other auctions right now....

here it is:

User ID Bid Amount Date of bid
brittv1955 ( 0 ) US $205.01 Nov-21-04 14:21:25 PST
duguay2004 ( 0 ) US $202.51 Nov-21-04 14:17:34 PST
brittv1955 ( 0 ) US $200.01 Nov-21-04 14:16:32 PST
rose7655 ( 0 ) US $199.00 Nov-21-04 14:05:25 PST
duguay2004 ( 0 ) US $195.00 Nov-21-04 14:14:42 PST
tamrendra ( 0 ) US $190.00 Nov-21-04 14:07:39 PST
cindy15873 ( 0 ) US $184.51 Nov-21-04 14:04:19 PST
tamrendra ( 0 ) US $181.99 Nov-21-04 13:32:02 PST
brittv1955 ( 0 ) US $179.01 Nov-21-04 13:30:50 PST
cindy15873 ( 0 ) US $176.51 Nov-21-04 10:39:21 PST
calmert ( 14) US $175.00 Nov-21-04 08:55:06 PST
cindy15873 ( 0 ) US $171.01 Nov-21-04 10:38:50 PST
lrac1981 ( 14) US $165.01 Nov-21-04 08:07:12 PST
jmartin177 ( 0 ) US $153.50 Nov-21-04 07:06:53 PST
ufarri ( 14) US $151.00 Nov-21-04 03:08:44 PST
jmartin177 ( 0 ) US $150.00 Nov-21-04 07:06:27 PST
trailmutts ( 33) US $145.00 Nov-21-04 05:08:39 PST
lrac1981 ( 14) US $135.06 Nov-20-04 22:30:30 PST
trailmutts ( 33) US $130.00 Nov-20-04 15:47:30 PST
lrac1981 ( 14) US $125.02 Nov-20-04 22:30:07 PST
lrac1981 ( 14) US $120.01 Nov-20-04 22:29:47 PST
cocoaice ( 0 ) US $110.00 Nov-19-04 20:55:44 PST
celine3531 ( 0 ) US $105.01 Nov-20-04 14:28:49 PST
trailmutts ( 33) US $100.00 Nov-19-04 03:58:39 PST
cocoaice ( 0 ) US $100.00 Nov-19-04 20:55:27 PST
cocoaice ( 0 ) US $75.00 Nov-19-04 20:55:12 PST
flfotografin ( 1 ) US $70.00 Nov-19-04 08:38:31 PST
flfotografin ( 1 ) US $65.00 Nov-19-04 08:38:15 PST
flfotografin ( 1 ) US $62.00 Nov-19-04 08:38:00 PST
eagletnet ( 52) US $60.00 Nov-19-04 08:09:23 PST
eagletnet ( 52) US $50.00 Nov-19-04 08:09:04 PST
elinorp88 ( 9 ) US $15.00 Nov-18-04 16:21:58 PST
flfotografin ( 1 ) US $11.50 Nov-18-04 15:27:03 PST
celine3531 ( 0 ) US $11.00 Nov-18-04 15:21:27 PST
flfotografin ( 1 ) US $11.00 Nov-18-04 15:26:48 PST
flfotografin ( 1 ) US $9.99 Nov-18-04 14:43:03 PST
 
Look to see what other auctions those bidders have bid on. Do they only bid on this seller's auctions? Do they have feedback from other sellers?

If they have won any of the seller's auctions, did the seller quickly relist the item as a new auction (in other words, no actual transaction took place)?
 
Originally posted by: kranky
Look to see what other auctions those bidders have bid on. Do they only bid on this seller's auctions? Do they have feedback from other sellers?

If they have won any of the seller's auctions, did the seller quickly relist the item as a new auction (in other words, no actual transaction took place)?
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How do you check what other auctions a certain user has bid on?
 
Go to Advanced Search, select Items By Bidder, and check the box for "Include completed listings".
 
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