Ebay jokes

[jefflgarrison]

Anyone notice the ORB for sale on eB?y tonight.

I was watching it through the last 3 hours to see how things would go.

At around 2 hours to go, it was listed at $112. But then things started getting fishy.

I am not saying this is what happened but here is the strange thing. The medal is offere by someone from the Netherlands. They haven't sold many thing (10 rating) so they are not an established dealer.

However, with about 1 1/2 hours to go and still around $112, all of a sudden "superhenkman" (also from the Netherlands) comes in, bids twice to up the price by about $6 but never outbidding the current bidder.

Then when someone does outbid the current bidder, "superhenkman" comes in again and pushes the bid up another $15 but again never outbidding the current leader.

Granted, the medal went finally for $170 and the second bidder had his highest at 167.55 but you have to imagine that it could have had a lower price if not for "superhenkman" coming in and jacking the bid.

And when I read an article recently about how people get their buddies to jack up prices to make more money, I didn't think it was so widespread.

Guess I was wrong.:thumbsdown