[Coco] NEW NORMAL

[Richard Goedeken]

Yeah I've been an ebay member since 97 or so.  I do remember that in the early
days you could place one bid on your own auction.  But they took away that
capability a long time ago.  However if you have a friend or spouse with
another account, you can bid as them.  But you run the risk of actually
winning the auction with the other account.  In which case you would have to
pay ebay the 10% final value fee.

Richard

On 07/15/2015 10:06 PM, Richard E. Crislip wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 23:18:22 -0500
> "camillus" <camillus.b.58 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> " I have realized that
>> there are only 2 people who matter in setting the final price of an
>> auction. The person who bids the most obviously wins and makes the
>> purchase.  But whoever bids the 2nd most amount is the one who sets
>> the price. "
>>
>> And could it be that the second person is the seller?
>>
>> He can hike up the price, ok losing the fee for eBay, but that is
>> peanuts against what he gains.
>>
> <snip>
> 
> I could be wrong, but EBay was supposed to have put the kibosh to that
> years ago.
>