I have a coin on ebay, and was surprised to wake up this morning with 103 bids. After closer inspection one person placed 95 bids alone. I cant figure why one person would take the time to place 95 bids.
Not being able to view the auction, I'd have to say that he put in his max bid and every time someone else put in a bid, the computer put in a bid for him until the bidding hit his max.
Let's say the coin was going for $20, and the bidder wanted to win, (but wasn't smart enough to snipe). However, maybe the high bidder had bid $400, but the new guy didn't know that. He bids 21, then 22, then 24 then 25.50, etc ad nauseum. Some people just have weird bidding habits.
You can view it by clicking on his eBay stores link, Rick. It's an interesting bid history, as the same bidder increased his bids by $2 increments from $34 to $100, then $5 increments up to $250, then $10 increments up to $500, then $20 increments up to $640... then he bailed, lol.
eBay will change bid increments based on value. I still stick by my theory and add that the guy with 95 bids had a max of $640.00 and was eventually outbid.
The guy's a nut..........bidding every two or three seconds...........is this a radical new bidding style designed to combat snipers? There's two days left in the auction.......
Looks like he was just clicking the 1 click bid button, while a higher bid was already present. Saves him time typing it in and moves things along with the minimum required bid. He did what a lazy man would do, without knowing how high someone else bid. Looks fine to me, especially if he was on a smart phone or small device at the time.
You're correct Rick, as eBay sets the minimum bid increment based on the current bid. Still, the bidder had to manually hit the 1 click bid button as stated above in order to increase the amount by a single increment.
Lol true. Maybe he didn't know you can bid a higher amount than just one increment on the app? By default it only goes to one increment higher.
I've seen similar behavior and have always ascribed it to someone who wanted to bid as little as possible without knowing what their max bid actually was.
Don't know if eBay still does this or not but if your item had more than 50 bids it'd show up with a flame next to it and say hot. Might help more views/bids.
Could also be the ever popular ploy to make the auction look too popular for new bidders, scaring them off.
I wasn't thinking of it the other way (the one click thing) that he might have been trying to beat someone else's max bid one increment at a time.
He is nuts in my opinion. I have done some drive by bidding before, but usually just 2 or 3 bids. Interesting sometimes how people bid.
