$400 MS Mouse anyone?

[chuckcmagee]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Original-Microsoft-mouse-c1983-Green-eyed-mouse_W0QQitemZ170083040328QQihZ007QQcategoryZ2316 0QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Vlad]

That would be really cool to have, but not for that price....

[Terry Yager]

Don't sweat it, the price ain't real. He's shill-bidding from a fake account, and someone has already reported him to eBay...

--T

[Unknown_K]

How do you know its a fake bidder?

[carlsson]

At least the bid history suggests there was only one bidder, who raised his or her bid thrice within 75 minutes. Whatever that means.

[Mad-Mike]

I have a fairly early Microsoft Mouse (copywright on the box says 1984) I bought with the original software for $3.00, I've archived the files off the floppies, and stored it somewhere safe, but it DOES find regular use on my IBM XT complete with bus mouse card.

[chuckcmagee]

Huh, guess it could have had a reserve of $400. That's what I thought when I saw the same bidder entering higher and higher bids.

Anyway, I saw another one for sale on ebay, starting bid 19.99, much better.

[Terry Yager]

Yah, a single bidder, with very little eBay history, bidding against himself looks suspicious to me. Apparently, someone else thought so too. When you see that Bidder 1, Bidder 2, etc. instead of the real IDs, it's because eBay is closely monitoring the bidding because someone has turned the auction in.

--T

[Unknown_K]

Yah, a single bidder, with very little eBay history, bidding against himself looks suspicious to me. Apparently, someone else thought so too. When you see that Bidder 1, Bidder 2, etc. instead of the real IDs, it's because eBay is closely monitoring the bidding because someone has turned the auction in.

--T

No, Bidder 1 2 3 etc is what happens when every auction hits a specific price value (something new they started a little while ago).

[chuckcmagee]

Yep, above some dollar value, they ALL magically change to bidder1, etc. I have seen same item with normal names, and changed later as the bids go higher.

[chuckcmagee]

I looked again at the listing. Nothing about "reserve" anywhere! I'm totally confused at this point. I have placed a second higher bid on an item, price does NOT go up when I do that. Confused.

[Terry Yager]

Every time I've reported a suspicious listing, the bid history changes to the bidder 1, 2, 3, etc thinggy.

I don't have a klew how a bidder manages to out-bid themself tho. I agree it's kinda weird.

--T

[carlsson]

I thought eBay went with Bidder 1, 2, 3 for almost all auctions, no matter what the price level was. The idea is to protect the buyers from other people contacting them with other offers?

[Terry Yager]

They usually list the bidders usernames. The only times I've seen the bidder 1, etc. is on illegal or questionable auctions that I've reported. (I didn't report this one tho...someone else beat me to it).

--T

[dongfeng]

They change when the bidding gets to a certain level. Or the seller can choose to have a private auction.