Bid Stacking

[tulagirl]

As a seller it doesn't bother me much either I guess, because I always set a reserve at a price where I know I'm making money even if I only get the bottom price.

Yes, it seems that I did read somewhere that sellers are talking about bringing back reserve prices or only doing bins to stop this new trend and save their sales from going so low. 

[Stormy31685]

If I want something, and I am comfortable with a price, I will pay it.  If it happens that I was a victim of shill bidding, so be it.  I almost never review an item's bid history because sometimes I think it is just as silly to complain about winning an item after the fact.

Also, I believe because of eBay's proxy bidding system, what you may be seeing is not shill bidding or "bid stacking" at all, but rather the way the bid history system reads the order of bids.  Fire example, if I place a high bid of $100 on an item with an opening bid of $5, the high bidder displayed in the bid history will be displayed as me every time another person makes a bid that increases the price.  So it will look like I am bidding, but I am not.  It is another person or potentially more than one person making the lesser bids.  They will not appear in the bid history until they make a bid that it over my highest bid.

[tulagirl]

Just to clarify, its my understanding the bid stacking really is when there are no other people bidding on the auction at all and the first bid placed has a number of bids over 10.  That's the stacking, not the proxy bidding that normally goes on in an auction with more than one bidder.

[Shenanigans]

Bid stacking doesn't bother me. I know that the person is putting in really cheap bids so there's a good chance I'll win if I snipe

[Nana-Rena]

I bid stacked once by accident. i thought my bid was too low, because I always got ared notice and finally when it went through I had put like 5 bids that were all higher than the previous one. I don't know what happened. I was probably just unobservant on what the window actually said.

[ponylady]

I honestly do not see this as an issue that anyone needs to worry about. There are far bigger issues on ebay 

[tulagirl]

I honestly do not see this as an issue that anyone needs to worry about. There are far bigger issues on ebay 

Yes I agree, yet there are a group of sellers that have been very affected by it.  I guess its not really happening much in the pony world.  It seems silly to let something like this stop a person from bidding on an auction or making a decent profit.

[Ringlets]

Its not something that worries me - as long as I dont see evidence of shilling then I really dont mind. If its something I want I'll bid no matter how many bids are there before mine

I honestly do not see this as an issue that anyone needs to worry about. There are far bigger issues on ebay 

I agree 

[Baby Mischief]

Aaargh, Im so irritated right now! I was going to bid on several auctions from the same seller today, but she didnt ship to Sweden. I talked to her and she agreed to add me to the list of bidders (because there where already bids on all of the auctions I wanted to bid at). But when I was going to tell her which ones I wanted to bid at and at the same time tell her how to add me to the list, I noticed that there where already too many bids so I figured I didnt want to waste her time with all that work, when I was sure the prices would run too high in the end. But now when I looked closer, it is almost only the same person putting in all the bids..!! And I just read this post, why didnt I look before emailing the seller?!