Is this just a coincidence or what?

[platinumike]

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=8178642404
ebay
its the same link. Look at the 2nd to last bid from nxkameinicki the item ended at 5pm pst. Yet he manages to meet my exact maximum bid(30+ from the current bid) at the last 4 seconds? is this some kind of sniper program? maybe i shouldnt register my maximum bid?

 

[RelaxTheMind]

they have programs that automatically snipe for u... like the last second...

 

[platinumike]

ya. Im just thinking maybe the seller knows a friend with the sniper. and just shille'd the thing up to my max bid. Btw, iam excelego

 

[Crazymofo]

There's no way for them to know your max bid...

 

[platinumike]

So this is just a coincidence?

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: platinumike
So this is just a coincidence?

someone tried to snipe the auction but their max bid was just below yours...which in of itself is a coincidence...

 

[platinumike]

Im kinda pissed. I'll still pay the $210. I was just looking at it about to end and within 4 seconds it pops up 30 bucks

 

[platinumike]

should i send this in to ebay or something?

 

[IH8 Money]

thats y i place uneven bids like $210.75. It has saved me a couple of times.

 

[angedinoir]

Yea, they can't know your maximum. If you didn't get it for 210, they would have. Sniping is just annoying anyway, if people used proxy bidding correctly, this wouldn't be a problem.

 

[endscape]

Originally posted by: platinumike
should i send this in to ebay or something?

Why would you send that to ebay?

 

[sswingle]

Yea, its normal for that to happen. Example. Your max bid is 210. Auction currently at 207. $1 increments. Other guy bids $210. His bid goes in 208, yours 209, his 210. That is a very basic example, but thats how it works.

 

[tk149]

I'm guessing that the OP thinks that someone hacked ebay and found out what his maximum bid would be. Then that person shilled the bidding up to the OP's maximum.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

Originally posted by: platinumike
So this is just a coincidence?

I've had the exact same happen to me (except I was the sniper), it's just a coincidence. It's also one instance where sniping actually causes you to lose the auction, since you placed your bid earlier!

There's nothing to report to ebay, you and the other bidder just came to the same conclusion about how much they wanted to spend on that NDS.