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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3083776, member: 27832&quot;]I believe you&#039;re right. For at least the last 20 years, eBay has used &quot;proxy bidding&quot; -- you enter your max, and eBay calculates the minimum incremental bid for you, repeating the process until you hit your max. But the canned bid amounts on the app actively <i>discourage</i> &quot;set and forget&quot;; it&#039;s easier to pick one of the suggested values than to think about it and type in your actual max.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll bet that <i>does</i> explain a lot of the &quot;ten bids in a row from one bidder&quot; behavior that we see.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, there <i>are</i> still shills, though. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yup, eBay&#039;s decision to allow only positive feedback on buyers was <i>pure genius</i>, wasn&#039;t it? Having said that, though, leaving derogatory positive feedback <i>does</i> violate eBay&#039;s Terms of Use, and the buyer could easily get it removed if they wanted. (I don&#039;t know if that would count as a strike against your account.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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