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Shill Bidding Question regarding ebay items...?

Lets say a seller is selling a 200 dollar sports book starting price 60 dollars. If I bid on one account lets say max bid 140 then went on another account and bid 150 do the price of the card would be higher hence less people would be interested in bidding. Would this be considered shill bidding. I always thought shill bidding was when you bid on your own stuff to raise the price. My instance would be using 2 accounts to bid on a random persons stuff with the main goal of making the price high enough to where people won't want to get in the bidding race since the bids are already near what the card is worth. I guess the logic behind it would be to steer away potential bidders on an item you want from a random seller but just bidding using 2 accounts so that starting price or current bid value is near retail value so people don't even want to bother bidding on it sicne theres no chance they can get a good deal better then the price its at already. It might now seem like a bad idea but if you know for a fact an item is going to get bid to a certain amount and you bid a slightly lesser amount then that theres a likelihood people will just bid on another item with a lower bid price at the current time. But no one really answered my question is it shill bidding yes or no?

Public Comments

1. yeah, that is a really bad strategy for winning auctions on ebay and it will not discourage people as much as you may think. best bet would be to try and snipe the auction - which is what most experienced bidders do anyways... here's a wiki on sniping. http://www.wikihow.com/Snipe-on-eBay
2. Shill bidding is where the seller is bidding on their own items & has become worse since the introduction of hidden bidder ids. Agree with the other answer - not a wise idea to bid with multiple ids. I use gixen.com - this places a bid 5 seconds before the auction ends, I love it :) Also add a few cents on your bid instead of bidding say $150.00 make it $150.01 or similiar. I cant tell you how many auctions I have won by 1 cent. Good luck.