A number of times now, (well, two or three), I have had people place a first bid on one of my auctions and then follow it up immediately with a second bid, the bid amount however stays the same.
Now this could be just a mistake and they thought the first bid didn't go through. But I'm begininng to suspect that this is a ruse to make other bidders think that this person wants the item so badly that they have immediately upped their bid to such a level that it isn't worth bidding against them.
Has anyone else come across this, is it a common tactic or am I looking too deeply?
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