eBay has been made aware of this issue but I am sharing it with all. I was bidding on an auction and became the high bidder. My maximum bid was set much higher than the bid of another winning bid at the time. This now losing bidder upped his bid marginally at least 10 times to a point where he became the high bidder. This bidder then retracted his bids which now made me the high bidder again. Now this is where eBay screws up.At the bottom of the listing, eBay shows t...

The general advice is to bid once and bid your maximum.What happened to you is why many buyers also bid late.This makes nibble bidding to expose your maximum difficult.If you don't have the time to make that single, late bid, you can use a sniping service like e-snipe. The pattern you saw, especially if those other retractions were with the same seller, smell of being shill bidding.Which is not only not allowed by eBay, but is actually illegal in most jurisdictions.Report it at the bottom o...

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