This seller has a history of pulling auctions early and when he does let the auction run its full course, usually it will reappear within a few days even though somebody "won" the item.
Many people do... when Ebay removed the " reserve price" for Australia it pretty much encouraged shill bidding and early auction ends. We all know that you are more likely to get good coin if you can get a couple of bidders to compete aginst each other. A buy it now price for an item makes it look like top dollar from the start and so gets less attention... have a couple of bidders tell themselves that the new bid price is only $200 more than before and watch it achieve a better price.
If the item isnt close to your target price 24hrs before auction end then you are forced to pull.
Reserve price auctions put an end to all this but for some reason us Australians can no longer have this feature
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eBay is full of these practices. Shill bidding is rife and the usual suspects spend a lot of effort ensure the friendly bids are done on time. every now and again, one or two slip through the cracks. Or you have the opposite - some prefer bumping the price up to ridiculous figures, and overstating the work done to them.
What I have had 100% success on eBay is to price the game at what it owes you as a minimum bid. This always works, and if the interest is there, you may be pleasantly surprised.
