Ebay Con Atrist. I Win!

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seen as no one else has asked, what car was it?

 

[NAILTRAIL96]

Sounds like a result!.
I won an auction last week only to find the actual winning bid was placed and retracted within 3 minutes of the auction ending.
How can it be done so quickly without prior knowledge?.

Even if your automatic bid went up, once the other is retracted your bid amount should reduce back to what it was it prior to that new bid.

What happened with me is that the seller's 'shill' threw a bid on that would presumably have pushed mine up, (to what I had indicated as my best price when discussing things with the seller, based on a vehicle I was prepared to swap).

My seller assumed I would place my highest bid as discussed with him and there would then be no need to retract the shill as I would bid to beat it.

The laugh I may have last is to get a friend out there to go and knock him down for a cash deal. He is desperate to get rid as the MOT is up soon and there are issues that will cost a non trade buyer so his price will need to drop correspondingly. Lose lose scenario for him.

I suspect that the other bids were genuine and tghey were just using the shill to test the highest genuine bid.
It's anoying that it didn't show on the bid history though as I payed before checking the emails.