I am a new bidder on www.MoviePosterBid.com and last night I thought I had just
completed a mini-bid war with monimaker and poems71 over a 40"x60" Robinson
Crusoe on Mars poster - in fact the high bid hadn't changed for over 3 minutes
so I was pretty sure I had the piece won at $125.01 when all of a sudden some
other bidder came in at the last second and beat my high bid by $1!!! WTF?!?!
Well I wasn't going to let this guy get the best of me by $1, so I quickly
entered a bid of $127.05 - figuring I would get him by $1.04 just to be sure.
But wouldn't you know it - he was still high bid by $1.
It took me a minute to figure this out, but it was only $1 so I thought I would
try $1 more. But guess what - he was still high bidder and now I saw that he
even had the nerve to just place another bid at 8:34. (Why would he do that
when he was already winning? What was going on here?)
This poster was still a bargain - especially in this rare size and with the
book coming out about 40"x60"s I decided I would give it another shot. I kept
going up little by little, hoping to win the poster for the least amount I
could and I guess he finally gave up after awhile. it took a full 30 minutes,
but finally I was high bidder again just after 9pm and for $161.
So my question to the group is this - Do you think that other guy was shill
bidding? I mean obviously I had the poster nearly won a full 30 minutes
earlier for $125.01, and then the guy (maybe the consignor?) decided that
wasn't enough and he outbid me knowing I really, really wanted this poster.
Then when he saw I would play his game and keep bidding, he made a couple of
more tiny bids just to squeeze a few extra dollars out of me.
This has really left a sour taste in my mouth and if I didn't know that Rich
was an honest seller it might really make me think twice about bidding again in
his auctions.
Samiam
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