Post #184860 by Kono on Tue, Sep 6, 2005 6:05 PM

What the...???

I see a very amateur "flurry of bidding activity" driving the price up very early. But...the participants are decidely "non-amateur." What gives?

Is this a new technique to keep the seller from ending it early due to back door propositioning? If so, I suppose it makes sense in an extreme meta-Machiavellian way. Hula?

Ebay's getting too complex for the likes of me. Maybe I should focus my energies on the arcane and Byzantine world of the Inuit snowball trading market. I think it would be easier to figure out. :)

Actually, the more I think about it, the early "flurry of activity" makes sense as a deterrent to insidious back room deals. Then again, I am drinking cheap rum and listening to The Blue Hawaiians Savage Night at this moment, so I am prone to indulging in half-baked conspiracy theories!