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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LA_Geezer, post: 3046246, member: 89393&quot;]I&#039;ll agree with that to an extent, but shills are also there to encourage bidding, and even whip emotional bidders into overbidding on an item. I did it myself for an external hard drive for my computer about 18 years ago. I had placed an opening bid shortly after the drive was listed, then came back to look at the page about 30 minutes before the auction was to close. I had been outbid on the item then did the unspeakable... I kept raising my bid until I was on top again. About 3 minutes before the auction ended, I was in a bidding war with another person — who was probably a shill — and we exchanged bids until about 45 seconds were left and there were no more bids from my adversary. I ended up paying almost full retail for the drive, and I was buying a refurbished one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I should point out, too, that the earlier claim that shills use sniping tools isn&#039;t necessarily valid. I thought about that after I made an earlier comment, but then asked why any shill would wait until the last second to strike. This runs the risk that the highest real bidder would lose.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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