Recent High Priced Auctions

I do think that this particular bidder must be legit......as he just won a second recent auction from the same seller.

But it's interesting to check these things out......it's also a way to find out the identity of the bidder......in this case Kahlua.

I hadn't even realized you could do that these days.
 
Yes, it looks like green is a win or the high bid on an ongoing auction.

That last entry, if I'm reading this right, is the high bid on a Gerber that is ongoing now.
 
BG42EDGE said:
Yes, it may be unclear for those who don't do a lot of e-Bay.

It's just a comparison of a seller we know is trustworthy with some that we have been questioning. He has very, very few low-feedback bidders and some others have a significant number who seem to run the bidding to some pretty amazing levels.

There's quite a difference in the auction histories.

One explanation for the lack of those low-feedback bidders in Knot2sharp's history is that he's not using shill bidders. Whether others are doing it or not is impossible to tell, but I'm staying away from some sellers and I'm watching a couple of those questionable low-feedback bidders on knife auctions.

A NIB knife ended recently with one of those low-feedback bidders the winner......if he was a shill, that knife will show up again in a new auction because the attempt to shill didn't work and they still have to sell the knife.

I don't know if everybody is aware of it, but auctions are available for inspection even after they expire in "completed auctions." All you have to do is go to the seller's feedback and go through his old auctions and then examine the bidding history on the item.

It can reveal a lot.
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Just to add to this. Go to the seller's item page, that has ended. At the top of the page it gives their feedback counts. When you click on this number it takes you to a page that shows all the people that have bought or sold to with their screen name that only on a regular selling item you see 1**1 etc., on this page you actually see their screen name. When Ebay figutes out this it probably will be deleted also. The only problem if the seller is fake bidder they probably won't be any feedback for that item. Hope this helps some.
And yes there are a lot of sellers out there trying to supplement their income doing legitamate business, that take a soking once on a while. I always remember an old friend that said the value of an object is what a buyer is willing to pay for it.
 
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