Exactly.  If you look at the time of the bids, you'll notice that aguinn put
in a $15,000 bid at 13:23, 7 of the 8 bids by champagne*taste came later.
Additionally, it looks like aguinn upped his own bid twice to help ensure
that he was high bidder.

mvdotcom tried to "snipe" at the end of the auction but failed.  Only aguinn
know how much his highest bid was, for all we know, it could've been
$20,000.

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Kim Brennan
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 2:07 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Does this bidding look fish y to you?

I don't think so. I could be wrong, but...

On eBay you put in your bid and a MAXIMUM bid you are willing to pay.
If someone else comes along and outbids your current bid, your bid is
automatically upped to cover the new bid (up to your maximum.) So it is
entirely possible someone else was trying to bid and that single bidder
had a sufficient maximum bid to exceed whatever the other person was
putting in.

On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 04:11  PM, Owen Brand wrote:

> Interesting that one bidder took the bid from 12,000 to 14,800 in 8
> bids
> without a single counterbid listed? The bidder that did this had a
> total of
> 3 transactions rated and the most recent was almost a year ago. I agree
> Chris. Very odd.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "80 Westy Pokey" <pokey@VANAGON.ORG>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 12:13 PM
> Subject: Does this bidding look fish y to you?
>
>
>> I put an early bid in on a Syncro on eBay so I was following
>> the auction. Check out:
>>
>> http://cgi6.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?
>> ViewBids&item=1876285309
>>
>> Seems like a high price, and lots of zero feedback bidders
>> pushing it up...
>>
>> Thoughts?
>> Chris
>>