Does this auction look suspicious?

Ebay has a fairly significant problem with people starting new accounts up with the expressed purpose of driving up the price of someone else's item to draw attention to their similar item they are selling. Of course that other item doesn't get paid for and the people left in the dust flock to the scammers similar item.

Had it happen to me recently, now I don't accept new/0 feedback bidders on my auctions and have to set up all the buyer restrictions Ebay has beforehand. I would be wary of any new bidders racking up the price on any auction on Ebay.
 
Had it happen to me recently, now I don't accept new/0 feedback bidders on my auctions and have to set up all the buyer restrictions Ebay has beforehand.

Unless they've changed it, you can't block zero feedback bidders. Sure, you can tell 'em not to bid but you can't block them, which is yet another reason eBay sucks. :)
 
Well seeing how 5 separate people bid after the zero feedback guy and that the zero feedback guy is now a 1 feedback guy it seems like it is hard to find a big problem here.
 
Unless they've changed it, you can't block zero feedback bidders. Sure, you can tell 'em not to bid but you can't block them, which is yet another reason eBay sucks. :)

you can definitely block bidders without certain requirements.
 
you can definitely block bidders without certain requirements.

Not zero feedback bidders without having them bid, then canceling the bid and putting them on your blocked bidder list by username. There are other things you can block under buyer requirements to head off certain bidders (like -1 bidders) but not someone who is *just* a zero feed bidder.
 
Not so sure it's suspicious honestly. One can't just bid over and over to take it up. The way it's set up in the bid history, it means the bidder before him had 300 as his max bid and the 0 feedback buyer kept increasing his bid to try and match it (and each time he didn't, it still upped the price to what he bid, as it always does). He stopped when he got the high bid at 300 until a guy with 55 feedback brought it up to 386, then Zero FB Guy bid one more time for 402. That's why it went up so fast, same thing happened to get it to 500 when the guy with 233 tried to catch up to the max bid of the guy with 55.
 
Maybe zero feedback guy put in a max bid of 400. Every time someone else bid before his max was reached, it would look like he bid again. If he put 400 in to start and that was the most he was willing to pay, once that was reached, there wouldn't be any more bids from him.
 
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