Suspicious bid on an auction site - need quick advice please!
I know this in the wrong place and will get moved, but I just wanted to post it were it would be seen and I can hopefully get quick replies.
I just won a pin on the Bay. When I bid, I set a maximum that it would bid up to for me. No one else bidded, until the last minute, when someone placed a single bid that was 40p below my top - so just enough to allow me to still win, but pay the maximum price I had put in. I find this really suspicious; the price they bid is an odd amount, and it seems very peculiar that said odd amount would be exactly what is needed to make me pay my maximum, but they didn't then bid again (despite there being enough time to) to win the item. I looked back at their visible history, and everything they've bid on, they've bid just once, only winning two items out of 10, and all listed within the collectables category pins are found in.
It seems to me like this may have been a bid just to push me up to the maximum, as though they knew how much I had put, but not an actual attempt to win the auction. Is there anything I can do about it? Should I say something to the seller? I haven't paid yet as it only ended a few minutes ago and I wanted to see what advice people can give before I pay. It doesn't seem fair for someone to bid just to push the price up, and I'm sure that's not allowed by the auction site's rules...
Any advice is greatly appreciated. Many thanks!
I just won a pin on the Bay. When I bid, I set a maximum that it would bid up to for me. No one else bidded, until the last minute, when someone placed a single bid that was 40p below my top - so just enough to allow me to still win, but pay the maximum price I had put in. I find this really suspicious; the price they bid is an odd amount, and it seems very peculiar that said odd amount would be exactly what is needed to make me pay my maximum, but they didn't then bid again (despite there being enough time to) to win the item. I looked back at their visible history, and everything they've bid on, they've bid just once, only winning two items out of 10, and all listed within the collectables category pins are found in.
It seems to me like this may have been a bid just to push me up to the maximum, as though they knew how much I had put, but not an actual attempt to win the auction. Is there anything I can do about it? Should I say something to the seller? I haven't paid yet as it only ended a few minutes ago and I wanted to see what advice people can give before I pay. It doesn't seem fair for someone to bid just to push the price up, and I'm sure that's not allowed by the auction site's rules...
Any advice is greatly appreciated. Many thanks!