On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, 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. Is it a reserve price auction? Sometimes people who do that are searching for the hidden reserve price. FWIW, I had someone make a bunch of bids like that on an auction I was running. They weren't a shill; I have no idea who they were. It struck me as pretty odd, too. _ _ __ _ _ _| | | | David M. Brodbeck (N8SRE) Ypsilanti, MI / _` | | | | | | +----------------------------------------------------- | (_| | |_| | | | @ cyberspace.org \__, |\__,_|_|_| "To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the |___/ pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be." |
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