I have bought a few items on Ebay with good transactions, and was recently looking at a true sinewave inverter (12 volt DC to 120 VAC)
300 watt Continuous, 600 watt peak, and so I bid $60 maximum but was outbid by $7 and lost the auction. I then noticed the same item was for sale again in just a few hours (maybe 18) and so I bid again with a limit of $60 and again lost the auction with a final bid of $65. And so I bid again on the same item with same limit of $60 and was outbid again at $61.12. And then bid again for the 4th time on the same item, and again lost the auction for $61.00, just $1.00 more than my limit.The seller appears to have a good feedback record, but this auction looks like somebody is bidding against me just to drive the price up, and always wins the auction by bidding $1 more than my limit.
I do understand the new 300 watt sinewave inverter is worth more than $60, probably in the $200 range, so maybe this is just standard practice to weed out the low bidders?
But it still seems to be a violation of Ebay (shill) policies.
-Bill