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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1271337, member: 27832&quot;]1) The bidder shows no previous history of bidding on items from this seller; therefore, there&#039;s no implication of shill bidding. The retractions issue is interesting, but probably not relevant here.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) This is a perfectly normal bidding pattern. Many, perhaps most, fixed-term (not Buy It Now) auctions for silver start at a small fraction of melt, and stay there until close to the close.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) An auction may be ill-described or in the wrong category, but if you spotted it, others can, too. Many bidders will delay showing their interest until the last second -- the fewer people have bid on an auction, the less attention it&#039;s likely to gather, and the less competition there will be. (&quot;This looks interesting, but if nobody else is bidding on it, maybe they&#039;re seeing something I&#039;m not.&quot;)</p><p><br /></p><p>4) Check out the eBay help section on <a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=3&amp;campid=5335874456&amp;toolid=10001&amp;mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.ebay.com%2Fhelp%2Fbuy%2Fautomatic-bidding.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=3&amp;campid=5335874456&amp;toolid=10001&amp;mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.ebay.com%2Fhelp%2Fbuy%2Fautomatic-bidding.html" rel="nofollow">automatic bidding</a>. It should answer your question about bid dates.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was tracking an auction last week for a lot of 20 Barber quarters that included an 1896-S -- one of the major keys, considerably rarer and more valuable than the 1916-D Mercury or the 1909-S VDB cent in a comparable grade (FR-AG). It was sitting right at melt until a few minutes before close, then bounced up to more than double in the last few seconds. (It still might have been a steal, but I wasn&#039;t confident enough at Barber valuation to bid much higher.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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