kanerdog1x1
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doesnt look sus to me, just looks like a 'novice' to the bay. i hate these private listings tho, its supposed to stop any shenanigans, but it stops us doing a bit of research on other users bidding against us......
dodgy bidding: been outbid, you guys want the bike?
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TBH, I don't think you could easily justify withdrawing your bid, and in any case if your maximum bid was more than £101 that means you won it for less than you were prepared to pay, which is arguably good news.
Quite a lot of people do bid like buyer 5 and they're not all inside jobs. Wouldn't it be more suspicious if he had increased his bid in regular increments? If he was doing what you suspect, surely he wouldn't have risked going from 90 to 99, he'd have tried 95 first? But even then, if your max bid had been 93 then his bid of 95 would have left him with it, which is always the risk they have to take with that tactic.
Quite a lot of people do bid like buyer 5 and they're not all inside jobs. Wouldn't it be more suspicious if he had increased his bid in regular increments? If he was doing what you suspect, surely he wouldn't have risked going from 90 to 99, he'd have tried 95 first? But even then, if your max bid had been 93 then his bid of 95 would have left him with it, which is always the risk they have to take with that tactic.
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as said before , it is a mate pushing the price up .
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each to their own . 
neilll":34jtr7h4 said:
there is no agreement. Ebay is an open marketplace and the person prepared to pay the most will always win!
however, if i see somebody bidding that I know then sometimes I'll drop them a line and discuss it. No point in two retrobuddies bidding each other up IMO.
But - it depends how much i want or need the thing too. I nearly always play nicely though.
Seeing as the bidder has no stars then he's a novice, they always treat ebays sales like normal auctions where the moment you get outbid you bid again and bid often in small amounts, wouldn't worry myself just set yourself a top limit and stick to it!
