Re: EBAY auctions and SNIPING - tesla coil parts

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Original poster: "teri mckenney" <mck-at-ezy-dot-net> 

Hello Malcolm,
I repeat, from a couple of days ago. YES, seller's "can" bid up the price
even though it's "fairly" unusual and unethical."I " don't have an account
with E-Bay. My freind lists my coil for me. "I" don't think it's going for
enough. Sooo, I bid up the price and buy it back from myself/my freind.Who
knows? maybe you'll go up against somebody thats bids "super" high.A
seller's not permitted to do this but SH** happens.
Bill Mck.
P.S. I'm sorry to say that I had no responses from Ireland :-( A TC coiless
oversea adventure)

 > The one and only time I participated in a web-based auction was a few
 > months ago on a local site. I was bidding against someone for an OEM
 > s'ware package. As it happened, I ran out of time and left the
 > auction without obtaining the item I needed (I ended up buying it
 > through a local computer dealer). The way the auction ran was to end
 > up being extended for an extra 5 minutes after the last bid placed
 > (which meant it could have gone on indefinitely). As it turned out, I
 > later worked out that the seller had actually been bidding against me
 > and as far as I was concerned, deserved to lose the sale (how I
 > discovered it is another story). The time extension is of course
 > perfectly legit and would have happened in any other type of auction.
 > Does ebay operate this way and is a seller permitted to bid an item
 > up?
 >
 > Malcolm
 >
 >