im highest bidder but seller keeps raiseing the minimum bid just higher then i bid against rules?

[jaclafon]

is this against any rules? they have done it more then once now & it is obvious they will keep doing it so at the least it is not a very acceptable practice in my mind.

[toby_le_pue]

Sounds like you don't understand the increment bidding process. read the following link http://pages.ebay.ca/help/buy/bidding-overview.html

[femmefan1946]

Someone has a higher bid than you do.

If the opening bid is $10 and I bid $100, it will open to me at $10.

If you then bid $11, my bid rises to $12.

If you then bid $13, my bid automatically rises to $13.

And so on, until you bid $101. At which point you become the high bidder.

The usual advice is Bid Once, Bid Your Maximum and then let it ride.

Some posters will also add Bid Late (within one or two minutes of closing) to prevent shill bidding by the seller. This is actually pretty unusual, though.

And even with BOBYM, you may be outbid in the last few seconds by a Snipe Bidder, who swoops in when it is too late for anyone else to react.

[jaclafon]

i think perhaps you mis-understood. i am not outbid i stay as the highest bidder. mind its to late now the items listing has ended, thanks for trying to help though.

[d-alex-l]

If the same seller is login with another account just to raise the bidding on is own auction, that is just wrong. But there would be no way for you to tell, just assuming he does that is not proof. Just eBay could find out if they are both log in from the same IP address, if they use a VPN, even eBay couldn't tell.

Chance are even if eBay is aware that multiple account are login with the same IP, that they would do nothing about it.

[d-alex-l]

Also most likely there is different type of bidder and all bidder user ID are anonymous now.
"Sniper" bid the max at the last second not to increase the bid.
Some user like you I guess, bid the minimum early on and need to keep close eye on the auction. If a sniper wait at the last second, your minimum bid will be beaten and there will be no way for you to overbid him.
If you bit the fair value of the item early on there's a chance for you to overcome all bidders.