Am I missing something here? I just sold a digital camera on eBay to this guy. I found this on his feedback. He bought this too. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160612770505
Weird.. first one was on there for 2 1/2 days. Got a bid and immediately closed. Second one was on there for about a minute, got a bid and ended. First guess was that the seller had the item in his/her shop and sold it before the auction closed and stopped the auction, but that doesn't fit the second auction. Maybe got an email for a side "Deal" so that seller wouldn't have to pay as large a price to ebay?
he also sold this: http://cgi.ebay.com/10oz-JM-Johnson...770?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25652c1912
The silver looks legit to me. I would guess the person either didn't label it very well, and nobody was able to find it, or maybe they put the Buy it Now price as the minimum starting bid by accident? I wonder also if there might be some setting to accept the first bid and close the auction? Both of the first 2 URL's were ended after 1 bid. In any case I don't think it's too good to be true, but I wouldn't expect the trend to continue.
If you go in to the Seller's feedback you'll see that the buyer noted that the seller canceled this sale.
You would think this guy's feedback would be tarnished more, but this is the only thing that makes sense.