DIGITAL CAMERA AUCTION 50% "0" Feedback Bidding

They have unusual bidding patterns on selected items, check them
out!!! On various items 50% of bidders have "0" feedback bidders, what
does this mean? When I expressed my concerns an unsigned email told me
to mind my own business and put me on blocked bidder list. What say
you???

EXAMPLES:

http://offer.ebay.com/ws3/eBayISAPI....tem=3822734484


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3821348598
(HALF THE BIDS)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3821329174

It' s probably people trying to meet the reserve price. If the reserve
is $100 and you bid $25 it shows up as a bid. Then if you bid $35 it
shows up as another bid, etc.


In article , KURVA
GROSPLUT wrote:

They have unusual bidding patterns on selected items, check them
out!!! On various items 50% of bidders have "0" feedback bidders, what
does this mean? When I expressed my concerns an unsigned email told me
to mind my own business and put me on blocked bidder list. What say
you???

EXAMPLES:

http://offer.ebay.com/ws3/eBayISAPI....tem=3822734484


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3821348598
(HALF THE BIDS)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3821329174

KURVA GROSPLUT wrote:

They have unusual bidding patterns on selected items, check them
out!!! On various items 50% of bidders have "0" feedback bidders, what
does this mean? When I expressed my concerns an unsigned email told me
to mind my own business and put me on blocked bidder list. What say
you???

EXAMPLES:

http://offer.ebay.com/ws3/eBayISAPI....tem=3822734484


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3821348598
(HALF THE BIDS)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3821329174

I can't say why you were put on a blocked email list, but can give an
explanation of thie bidding.

It looks like eBay beginner bidding. In the first auction you list, the
first bid was $200 by "diveraholic" on June 18.

Then "dlr655" entered a bunch of bids from $35 to $135, apparently
entering actual bid amounts and not knowing how proxy bidding works.

After this "tedchiqui" entered bids from $140 to $220, which became the
new high bid.

The other bids are fairly straightforward.

I see this bidding pattern from beginners periodically. They don't
understand proxy bidding and don't enter their highest bid, letting eBay
manage it for them, or they want to bid the increments manually.

This is one reason I often use a sniping service. If I enter my high
bid directly somebody outbids me. If I snipe it there's a good chance
that the high bidder entered an amount just high enough to become the
winning bidder rather than his/her limit. They can't go up another
increment on a last second bid.

Tom