Is this guy running me up?

[memorylane]

What do you guys think, is this guy that owns this Pepsi Cooler running me up, I was the high bidder under the guy that become a member today and new how to figure out where my high bid was? Sounds funny to me. How can I tell.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=281045836339

[Chris]

It looks like it to me. Strange how the one your bidding against just started recently.

[memorylane]

Thats what I though, you don't become a member and the first time you bid, you take it one bid at a time till you get to where I had a max bid. Wish I could find out for sure???
Any ideas guys

[jholmgren]

Thats what I though, you don't become a member and the first time you bid, you take it one bid at a time till you get to where I had a max bid. Wish I could find out for sure???
Any ideas guys

Try reporting it to eBay's "Safe Harbor" - I did that a few years ago to someone that was obviously shill bidding me.

[MaineT]

Retract your bid and dump it on him. Perfectly legal per ebay but you have to do it before the last 24 hours.

Then wait until the last minute to bid, never bid early.

[Chris]

I agree with Tim. Never bid early. Get the suckers out of the way and bid last minute. If it runs up to far then you don't need it. That is how I play eBay. There are some that will drive up the prices so I have to set a limit that I will go on something and once it goes over that I move on. It's hard to do but you will save yourself a lot of money.....

[memorylane]

I do that as well but there were to many bidders that were getting cought up in the bidding so put in a high enough bid to knock out them then come in in the end with the real money. I reported this guy, I still think he had someone run it up to get it over a thousand.

[johnieG]

Yep, I'd drop a dime on this one...

[Pat Pixley]

It cool but I would retrack my bid then come back with the last two minutes aution and stomp that A$$ H_L_ into the ground
or take a pass on it and see if it show back up a week later.
 

[MoonDawg]

       It's pretty obvious the new bidder is in bed with the seller, so retracting that bid would have knocked their price back a few hundred.
       Unfortunately a legitimate bidder has now stepped in and overbid them.............
just what they wanted