At What Bid Activity % Does Shilling Become Suspect?

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From my experience that is roughly around 69.69%

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And what of the rate of correction?

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Depends on the velocity of sales

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Just noticed this auction went from 81 to 72 bids today. What does that mean?

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Red flag?

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Dunno, it was a $1600 max bid and a minute after it was placed it looks like the 277 feedback account string bid them up to it, might’ve been why the retraction was placed. Current high bid is from a legit account.

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Also bidding $1 under the next hundred i count as a form of shilling (to not go over someones max bid). Eg bidding $799

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I would say it’s also a bit complicated - I rarely do bidding and when I do it may be for one seller only. So my bidding might look shady when it’s really not… Lol :slightly_frowning_face: I don’t shill though and if a price goes too high for my liking I just stop bidding and forget about it.

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I would morelikely bid $801.26 than $799Those odd extra few cents saved my butt many times and winning the auction

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I don’t use eBay much (mainly use my buddy’s acct because it has high feedback and I was lazy) but how do you retract a bid? Is it an option right on the screen after you bid?