Can I vent for a moment please?

[hlbmlp]

it's incredible... I won a few, but they had .99$ starting price, and fair shipping and i bid like 1.50-2$ and won... I was absolutely shocked!!!!!  happy, but shocked seeing the same ponies go for so much!!!

[lilgryphon]

To be fair, if it's a live auction it isn't the sellers that are driving up the prices....while I know that there ARE plenty of sellers out there that think that Peachy is worth 10X her regular price and have a high starting price or BIN you can't blame the sellers on the going prices when people continue to pay it.

[Dragonflitter]

ValeofSpring I totally know what you mean. I think there must be something about bidding in an auction against others that makes people spend more money.

Definitely there is! Humans have evolved to be very competitive--if there's only one fruit on the tree, the person who gets the fruit doesn't go hungry. Thus we're hard-wired that if we see someone wanting something, we want it too! Auctions were designed to attract our primitive natures. ^_^;