How often do you think auctions are shilled on ebay?
 

Do you think a lot of sellers bid on their own stuff to see if they can get more money out of you?

It happens a lot I will bid on something that no one seems to give a crap about and out of nowhere I get outbid at the last minute.

This is with zero bids on the item initially.

Shilling or is simply everybody a sniper now? Should I wait till the last minute to place my first bid too?

there is a lot of "sniper" software that is sold that does just that. You put in your max bid and waits until seconds are left to bid.

Being out bid at the last second has nothing to do with shill bidding. There are plenty of sniper programs that do this for you, for free or a few bucks for a membership.

I guess I need me one of those.

What you are describing sounds like sniping, but shill bidding goes on all day, every day.

AuctionSniper.com is the best.

That's not shilling. Shilling is ongoing throughout the auction to falsely give you the idea you have competition for the item.

I guess it's unrealistic I could get a Digitech RP1000 for 250 anyway.

Too many times to count Ive been outbid during the final minutes of an auction only to have the seller send me with a second chance offer a few hours later. I always tell them to get fucked because its clear someone was bidding on their behalf in an attempt to make me pay more.... fuck ebay

SSet up some snipes on auctions ending overnight. All my big scores have been overnight snipes.

I got shilled on a fuckin' Ducati a while back and the winning bidder had like a dozen bids on products from the same dealer, so it was obvious, and Ebay didn't do shit.

I'm an ebay addict. I always bid 8-15 second before ending.
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From experience, shilling is not a common practice.

I believe that shilling is not a common practice at least on ebay.
But we definitely see tons of similar projects (clones) on the net that do it. No doubt.

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