Am I Crazy???

[Eric]

Am I crazy, or is there something odd here?

In one of the major auction houses ending this week I had bids in on two items, also including maximum bids. Note: The pieces were both of the same player, from two different teams.

On the first item, let's call it "Gamer A" I was the
high bidder at $322 with a high bid at $690

On the second item, let's call it "Gamer B" I was the
high bidder at $220 with a maximum bid at $389

The following events took place yesterday
At 1:21:37 PM "Gamer A" was bid up to $389
At 1:21:52 PM "Gamer A" was bid up to $471
At 1:22:08 PM "Gamer A" was bid up to $570
At 1:22:23 PM "Gamer A" was bid up to my maximum of $690 But Not Over, leaving me as the high bidder

Seconds later
At 1:22:39 PM "Gamer B" was bid up to $266
At 1:22:42 PM "Gamer B" was bid up to $322
At 1:22:59 PM "Gamer B" was bid up to my maximum of $389 But Not Over, leaving me as the high bidder

As an experiment, I increased by maximum high bid on "Gamer B" to $835
Guess what happened today
At 3:38:20 PM "Gamer B" was bid up to $471
At 3:38:23 PM "Gamer B" was bid up to $570
At 3:38:26 PM "Gamer B" was bid up to $690
At 3:38:42 PM "Gamer B" was bid up to my maximum of $835 But Not Over, leaving me as the high bidder

There have been no additional bids on "Gamer A"

Now am I crazy, or does this seem very convenient that my bids keep going up to my max but not over? Granted both gamers are of the same player- so it is possible someone else out there is a fan of the player, wants these two items and put bids in on both. Because that is a possibility, and we're only talking about 3 instances of the item getting bid to my maximum, I have not included the name of the auction house because honestly I'm not sure if what I think might be happening is actually happening.
Can I get a reality check here?
Eric
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[sammy]

Eric,


It's called shill bidding, and you should let us know what piece of garbage auction house is doing this.

[josports]

No Eric You Are Not Crazy!!

[BoneRubbedBat]

Eric,

Happened to me also on an auction ending tonight. I'm still the high bidder at my maximum bid. I was also doing it as a sort of experiment. We'll see........

Marcus Sevier

[Eric]

Marcus
Can you post details like I did above?
Anyone else out there have the same thing happen to them?

[BoneRubbedBat]

Initial bid of $666 at 11:38 12/8, with a maximum of $1020.

Bid challenged, raising my bid to $806 at 20:52.

Challenged again, raising my bid to $1100 at 20:58.

No further bids since maxing out my bid. Still winning as of this post.


This has been the rule, not the exception with at least two of the auction houses I deal with. I honestly cannot count the number of times this has happened over the years. At first, I felt like "cool, I barely won", but that got old after the tenth time of winning at the maximum bid. I can fairly say that with the two auction houses, I win items AT my maximum bid at least 90% of the time. Coincidence? I don't think so any more. Solutions? I don't know. It's very difficult to boycot certain places when they are selling one of the items you have been looking for for years.

I wish these people would either put a reserve on an item or just suck it up and take the loss instead of ***king us like this.


Marcus Sevier

[trsent]

As Mr. T said to me the only time I met him when he used to live in my old hometown of Lake Forest, IL - "Weird, wild happening stuff"

[JimCaravello]

Eric - you are not crazy. This stuff has been going on for years. Maybe what we need is our own auction on this site???

[Eric]

What amazing luck I have

No further bids were put on my two items and I won them at my maximum.
How did others do?

[allstarsplus]

Eric - What did you get in last nights auction?