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Originally Posted by trader220
Ive had that kind of stuff go on with things I have sold too. It works like this... two bidders emerge from what seems like NO WHERE and they bid your item through the roof well past what you would dream to get for it.
Whats really going on according to Ebay is that 1 person who is trying to sell a similar item has started to bid your item to the moon with 2 other names in order to take your item out of consideration by those who looking at both your item and theirs
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Or maybe eBay is "cheating" to increase their revenue and keep sellers happy? They can see the maximum bid a bidder has placed; they could run the auto-bid system so that "fiction bidders" bid to bring the price near the limit the real bidder has placed.
Considering how un-helpful they are to a buyer when the buyer has been scammed, and how they "turn a blind eye" to much of the stolen merchandise on their site, (and knowing that those running the company operate with a "relativistic" moral philosophy -- the position of "there is no 'right or wrong' it is all just 'opinion'") it wouldn't surprise me if they cheated in such a way.
They could "justify" it by telling themselves, "After all, the buyer was
willing to pay that price he put in our system, we just helped our seller to realize that price."