if you're bidding on a relatively desireable item at auction and there's absolutely no action on it at all, would that raise a serious red flag for you?

i remember during the tris speaker bat debacle, either mike rose or chris cavalier said that during the auction, the lack of action on the bat gave them cause to think something was wrong with the bat.

if i was bidding on a 1992 joe carter shirt and by the last day of the auction there were no other bids, i'd probably start panicking and wonder what others knew about the shirt that i didn't.

i thought of this when i saw this recently ended auction and it's 1 lone bid: http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/A...ction_ID=46812

i wonder if the winner wonders why noone else bid on it.

rudy.