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Is this one of those infamous sellers a la Cobubber?
Not at all, The Bull Cabinet has been around for some time, IMO selling straight up no nonsense deals.
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Suddenly, a newly created eBay account nabs it at the Buy It Now price of $249
That's what newbies do.
Absolutely nothing fishy to me. Your nose may vary.
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I have even more strange for you:
a HP 33E
A man, with a negative profile, bids at 71 € ($ 94) then retracts for the reason "seller unreachable". Later, the same man bids again at 500 € ($ 660) for a HP 33E, and retracts 10 seconds before the end. Then a man with a confidential profile bids 4 seconds before the end.
Completely weird.
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I thought, perhaps incorrectly now, that once a real bid had been entered, "buy it now" was no longer available.
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I am curious about another sort of eBay behavior that I see. The same bidder will be displayed as bidding maybe 10 successive bids, each higher than the last, but no one bidding against him. Why would one do that? Is there something else happening behind the scenes that I don't know about?
I have seen this behavior lately on several calculators...
Rich