Ebay Question

[Frank97]

I'm currently the highest bidder on an item at £41, my highest bid is £70, so I was just wondering if the seller knows what my highest bid is?
If they can see it and nobody else bids what is to stop them getting a mate to bid £69 so I have to go to my maximum offer?
I hope that makes sense.

[EDDIE51]

Boxtops, once it says 'you are the highest bidder' you have to click on 'bid history' to see the other bids. Sorry I should have mentioned that, your post reminded me.
I first found this out when I accidentally bid £500 instead of £5.00 but now I know now that this is a known method of finding out how much a max bid is.

[percypineapple]

If you open another ebay account in a different name, you will still have to register a bank account i think, so you will need another bank account as ebay will not let you register two names to one bank account. You could do this a few times, but how many bank accounts could you have?

[EDDIE51]

EBay are not stupid , far from it, if you open another account they can see that the computer being used is the same one .
You need to open another account using a public computer in the local internet cafe and another email address and name ( not that I would ever do such a thing of course ;-) )

[percypineapple]

eddie,
i have three different accounts, two have feedback of 1,500 and one is 150. i access all three from the same computer, they have three different paypal accounts, as they trade in different goods, so three different bank accounts, never had any problem with either ebay or paypal.
percy.

[kaw69]

Hi I agree with Clanad, use a free sniping service such as Goofbay or Jbid watcher to put in your highest bid seconds before the auction ends and as long as your computer is switched on you don`t even have to be around when it ends.
I have won loads of stuff for less than I was prepared to pay and because it goes in seconds before the end no one can outbid you because by the time it takes to put another bid in the auction has ended.
Hope this helps