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Originally Posted by Bob C
Not if there is a reserve. You can just keep upping your bid till you
hit the reserve.
Bob
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Yep, that sounds the most plausible so far .
Although to do that thru ebay would have been very lucky to fluke the reserve at just 6 seconds to go.
The winner in the end was the highest bidder at the $20000 mark.
Then he threw a high bid in either exactly at $38500 or higher.
His bid won at 6 seconds to go, so it was probably a high bid thru a sniper program.
I don;t know how a sniper program could detect a reserve , maybe they can.
I doubt if it was the seller himself or a pal as this would be dumb to bid at the exact reserve himself , then he would have to either make a bad seller claim or pay the fees to ebay himself for a no sale.
If the reserve was $38500, a smart seller would have $38400 bid for himself on a snipe with enough time to allow another snipe to win..