Yeah, I agree with you. Something seems a little fishy. Although if he is a shill bidder, he blew it, cause now he has the high bid and has to pray l**u comes back.

But more likely, its just that l**u had a maximum bid of $57,000...even though the current bid was only $53,000. So every time t**r placed a bid, ebay automatically topped it with a higher bid for l**u until his maximum was reached. It just doesnt show t**r as the bidder, since hes not bidding more than the other guys maximum.

 

That's all makes sense except; why would ebay not show t**r's bids .. isn't that why l***u's bid kept entering until it reached max? .. if so, why wouldn't they just show it as:
or something to that effect? another words, why not just show all the bids?

 

For whatever reason, the bid history only includes the actual high bids...and not all the attempts to take it. Makes sense, I guess, only to list who has high bid, and at what time, and for how much. *shrugs*

 

Isn't "EVERY" new bid the "actual high bid"?

I'm dragging this out 'til it starts pissing you off? is it working? [8D]

 

You could never drag me out. Of the closet, anyway. LOL

Every new bid would be the actual high bid, if there were no such thing as maximum amount bid...if you follow. Since what's his name set his maximum so high, all the other "bids" under that total can't count as "currently item-winning high bids". But the people attempting to take away his high bid, need something to go on...you can't just shoot in the dark and hope you land higher than some guy's maximum...

I'm pretty sure live auction houses don't do it this way...in those cases, you're right, every bid is the actual high bid.

 

anybody wanna buy my kidney

 

Wait......yea.....I think I need to change my shorts! What a badass machine!!

 

Damn son, that bike is so nice.

I love how the exhaust is setup. It looks so wicked!

 

I bet you that exhaust will cook your *** too! It's an extremely nice bike, except I think the way the seat is attached looks cheesy.

 

The bidding history works l.ike that because that person had a max bid set, and someone bid higher than that. So when the higher bid came, the system automatically did bids up to that amount on behalf of the first bidder, until it ran out. There's nothing fishy about it, it's the way Ebay works.