Originally Posted 9/6/08
I am sooooooooo over eBay now it ‘s not funny. I’ve been sussin out bikes, mainly looking for one to tear down, rebuild and customise but everytime I bid on something the price seems to climb to some ridiculous amount – when you check the bidders though a lot are new members. Call me a whinger if ya like, but I ‘d like to see who I ‘m bidding against and this Bidder 1, Bidder 2 bullshit is not protecting eBay users, all it ‘s doing is making it easier for sellers to have their mates push prices up in the hope that they ‘ll get a squillion bucks for summut that’s worth a quarter of that. Case in point: A bike I was looking at, had been bid on by one person just after it started, I was third bidder in and was high bidder for over a week even after three other bidders came in and tried to push me off – then all of a sudden bidder 1 is back, upped the price near on a quarter of the current bidding then disappears again – sorta smacks of suspect bidding to me. I came back and bid more and got high bidder again but after bidding it struck me that sod it, if this person and I use the term loosely outbids me again, then stuff it they can have it coz I ‘ll put money on the fact it ‘ll get relisted with some lame excuse like the bidder had a family crisis and couldn’t buy it or some other pile of BS.
Apart from that, doin sod all. . .