1415 bids

suki1964

and yet still only a penny????????????

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31811&item=5567971135&rd=1

JPS

OMFG!! THAT IS MENTAL!! HAHA they must realllly want this item!! Took my browser bout 30 seconds just to load the bids page! lol

Viper

:confused: caterine7770 bidded 1429 time's and still a penny I don't get it.

suki1964

Viper wrote:

:confused: caterine7770 bidded 1429 time's and still a penny I don't get it.

Thats what I cant understand either
Also look at the buyers other items - all have over a thousand bids yet all still at a penny

Viper

suki1964 wrote:

Thats what I cant understand either
Also look at the buyers other items - all have over a thousand bids yet all still at a penny

Wow didn't see those so altogether 22585 bid's by the same person that's impossible!! lol. shrill bidding?, but no price increase!!.

JPS

Nah it's simple. As it's the same user putting in higher bids, they will not outbid themself!! They are simply raising their bid so if someone else bids they have risen their highest bid. It happens alot when someone thinks arghh I should have put a higher bid in as I wont be around when the auction finishes etc....but to put in 2000 odd bids is jus silly n obviously someone messin around but still the most bids I have ever seen!

HairyHatMan

Obviously something very odd going on here. The bidder must know the seller.

The current price is still 1p becauseEbay's proxy bidding won't allow you to outbid yourself. It could be fun placing 1000 more bids on one of these items secure in the knowledge that you'll immediately get outbid.

JPS

Ye obviously someone having a laugh / playing around - quite funny they must be well bored! Do you think they sat there just typing in bid after bid after bid....haha

Lazy_Ike

Viper wrote:

Wow didn't see those so altogether 22585 bid's by the same person that's impossible!! lol. shrill bidding?, but no price increase!!.

Seller(?) has 25 items listed, all with bids from same person, as Viper spotted. Seller has also given feedback to this buyer 7 times. Means seller is subject to listing and final value fees of over £5. Not a lot of money, but what is the object?
Neither will achieve a displayed increasing feedback count.
Ebay is a slow site, my BB connection takes 6 secs to load next page after initiating a bid. If the whole process took just 15 seconds, then this is almost 4 hours of mind-numbingly repetitive work - feel free to check my arithmetic, could be wrong. Viper not sure if that was a typo but I agree it is "shrill bidding". Is some form of software being used? I am also .

HairyHatMan

I wonder if this is someone testing out a piece of software that automatically bids on an item . It'd's easier to test it on 1/2 dozen items rather than set up hundreds of dummy items. Aucion sniper type software perhaps?

ViJay_3

HairyHatMan wrote:

I wonder if this is someone testing out a piece of software that automatically bids on an item . It'd's easier to test it on 1/2 dozen items rather than set up hundreds of dummy items. Aucion sniper type software perhaps?

Yes, I think you've hit the nail on the head there. That seems like the most logical explanation.