Bidding on your own auction isn't that uncommon - they do that here in the
cattle / beef industry all the time.  If you are the highest bidder you pay
the auction fees no matter what - the auction house doesn't care as they
make their money no matter what.

I find that people are (and I have been know to be guilty of) bidding with
emotions more than brains.  If there is an item there that you want, bid
your maximum - your real maximum, if you are outbid - walk away from it and
let some other fool buy it for too much money - don't let that fool be you!

David Marshall

Fast Forward Automotive Inc.
4356 Quesnel Hixon Road
Quesnel BC Canada  V2J 6Z3

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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Andrew Grebneff
Sent: April 15, 2002 10:26 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: E-bay Scam Trend (Caveat emptor)

>Learning Point:  Seller have been known to set their minimum selling price
>so high that the item will not sell and then they re-approach buyers to see
>if they want to buy off-line at the higher price.  Another tactic that I
>seen used is that they bid against their own item under a different name to
>drive the price up and when they win the then go the next highest bidder to
>sell at an inflated price (off-line to boot)

Realestate agents here do this at house auctions. It's not even
illegal here, go figure. I hope a certain listee isn't bent this
way...
--
Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut