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At 04:42 PM 10/10/2003, Jason C. Wells wrote:

>The hardware is cheap if I can get it on ebay. The more I try to buy even
>_one_ item, only to get outbid and see the same item from the same seller,
>the more I think it's all shill bidding. :|

There is, indeed, a lot of shill bidding on eBay. The idea is to force
eBay's proxy system to raise your bid to the maximum you'd be willing
to pay. eBay really doesn't have any enforcement to prevent it.

--Brett