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As I am writing my industry report and checking an ebay listing I noticed the yehoo that kept raising my bid was an account created in the last 30 days and had 0 feedback.

How do you feel about 0 feedback bidders? Sometimes I wonder if it an artificial bidder just there to bump the going price.

Could very well be but if flea-bay finds out the seller will be history. You can always ask flea-bay about it. I'm sure they will check it out.

Both you and I were 0 feedback bidders at one time. I dont know about you but as a rookie I had no idea of what to do when bidding.

On the other hand experience tells me that people do create ghost accounts to bid their own auctions up.

I personally dont let 0 feedback bidders bid on my auctions.

I never bid on anything before the last 15 secs of the auction. I figure I can spend X money and that's what I put in. Yes I am the * that swoops your $hit at the last second. Of course unless its a buy it now.

Talking about fast bidding I probably shouldn't mention this, but since I'm a nice guy check out BidSlammer.com. You gotta pay for the service but it's totally worth it. There are free ones out there and I've tried them all, these results are worth a quarter a snipe(win). 99% accuracy too!

And nobody spammed my account for future reference, it's really me posting it!

When I was a noobie on FleaBag I would bid on something well before it closed, another noobie would trump me, then I would outbid him, then he outbids me, etc., etc. and the bid price would inch up the ladder. Then when the item closed, I would click on the number of bids to see how it went and noticed that the winner was some guy with 1,000 or more transactions, who had entered only one bid, 3 seconds before the bid closing.

If the bidding isn't already too high, I started doing that, too . . . just wait until it is close to the bid closing time, type in the most I am willing to pay for the item, then hit the submit button within 5 seconds before the end. I usually buy what I want that way about 2/3 of the times - other times somebody else is doing the same thing, and he was willing to pay more for the item than I was. Bidding is competitive, so you win some, lose some. C'est la guerre!

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Depends on what you're buying. If it's common and you know the value, you can just play the odds. I'll scan for things and put in 5-6 minimum offers on a few things that are low priced values, figuring that most will be sniped and I'll only pick up 1 (if at all.)

eliteguy50 wrote:As I am writing my industry report and checking an ebay listing I noticed the yehoo that kept raising my bid was an account created in the last 30 days and had 0 feedback.

How do you feel about 0 feedback bidders? Sometimes I wonder if it an artificial bidder just there to bump the going price.

All bidders are Anonymous anyway. How can you tell if it is for real either way???

martynkim wrote:... How can you tell if it is for real either way???

Exactly.