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Message:: [QUOTE="mark_h, post: 2189642, member: 3726"]While I do not know the rules of ebay and bidding - I do stuff like that all the time.  I might bid once and it not be high enough.  Then I bid again to see where I stand.  In some cases I might even go a third bid.  Just did this on a coin the lcs had on ebay - I still lost.  I think my third bid was 18 and it closed over a hundred.  And even some occasions I bid the first time and will be high, then get outbid - then I bid more.  I typically do not win these type auctions because I am trying to get some real bargains.  I do this even more on heritage.  I am just glad I do not have to pay for losing bids - I have a lot of those this year.  Heck even some of my serious bids get blown out of the waters. And what do you know - the current high bidder even had a retracted bid.  Just enough to be high.  And with 22 hours to go I am not sure the seller would have done anything.  I have seen $10 bid on coin go to over 1000 in the last few seconds of bidding.  There was one about 4/5 years back I was watching - I just knew I could steal it at $500 and it was only around 14 or 15 bucks.  With 4 seconds to go I click bid - well heck my bid did not take because it was up to like $1100 dollars. I am not sure anything nefarious is going on for this auction.[/QUOTE]