Ebay: sellers using other IDs to push up prices

[The Jackal]

So it's possible to easily up a bid via another IP ?

I could do this with ease with a couple of Class Cs at my disposal...

HOLY CRAP I'm an ebay newb I made a serious bid today for the first time ever !
My first ebay experience and it wasnt a happy one....

10seconds til the auction ending and I thought I had won then this happened....

roshcam( 487Feedback score is 100 to 499) £31.50 18-Dec-06 14:59:53 GMT
jeanlea0( 394Feedback score is 100 to 499) £30.50 18-Dec-06 14:59:49 GMT
memory1trade( 47Feedback score is 10 to 49) £27.01 18-Dec-06 14:59:48 GMT

WTF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What happened there ? Are there plugins that these guys are using or is that all automated by ebay ?

I'm confused

[Chrysalis]

Alot of people bid at the last minute deliberatly either manually or using software, I seen a few apps that automate last minute bidding.

[Graham M]

Erm Class C as in private? Hang on no that'd show up as the router you're behind.

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by Zeph

Erm Class C as in private? Hang on no that'd show up as the router you're behind.

Lol ermm no. Real public addresses

[TheBlueRaja]

Originally Posted by CrC-3rr0r

So it's possible to easily up a bid via another IP ?

I could do this with ease with a couple of Class Cs at my disposal...

HOLY CRAP I'm an ebay newb I made a serious bid today for the first time ever !
My first ebay experience and it wasnt a happy one....

10seconds til the auction ending and I thought I had won then this happened....

roshcam( 487Feedback score is 100 to 499) £31.50 18-Dec-06 14:59:53 GMT
jeanlea0( 394Feedback score is 100 to 499) £30.50 18-Dec-06 14:59:49 GMT
memory1trade( 47Feedback score is 10 to 49) £27.01 18-Dec-06 14:59:48 GMT

WTF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What happened there ? Are there plugins that these guys are using or is that all automated by ebay ?

I'm confused

People (including me) do this CRC, i always bid only on items at the very last minute as it usually guarantees that i get the item for less money unless the original bidder has bid more than my final amount.

In which case i dont get tempted to bid again at a higher level than i was originally intending to pay.

I've not seen anything that does this automatically though..

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja

I've not seen anything that does this automatically though..

I'm suprised there is not something out there to this :

Looking at these :

http://www.jbidwatcher.com/ looks very promising and being java will be easy to hack for also

others :

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/549/
which is a port of : http://www.bid-o-matic.org/hp/screen.php

---------- Post added at 19:10 ---------- Previous post was at 19:07 ----------

From http://www.jbidwatcher.com/

Now thats what I'm talking about : And I should be able to run this from my low latency connection...

# Sniping

The program defaults to 30 seconds, which is not a bad idea if you're on a dialup, but is way too long if you're on an always-on fast connection. If you have DSL or a Cable Modem, you can bring it down to 10-15 seconds. Lower, and it might not get the snipe in time, but you get the opportunity to get that brag-worthy 1-2 second snipes. I have had snipes fire at 2 seconds on a really good speed link. I have had reports of 3 second snipes working on Cable Modems. I'm still a wimp, and snipe at 10 seconds most of the time, over my slow home DSL (144K), and recommend that you not try and be too impressive. Getting the bid in, is more important than getting it in the absolute last second.

[Taf]

There is automatic software out there (but of course I'm not going to tell you what it is am I) .

Suffice it say that it's called sniping... and is not on AFAIC.....

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by Taf

There is automatic software out there (but of course I'm not going to tell you what it is am I) .

Suffice it say that it's called sniping... and is not on AFAIC.....

Dont worry looks like I'm a happy ebayer now