A Fair Affair
It's an utter annoyance to deal with people who not only use strategies like this but expect us to fall for them like we were born yesterday. I still think that fake highest bidders is more of an issue however.
Definitely but it's a lot harder to figure out whether or not someone is doing that. A lot of people take offers via PM and then you can't tell if they're making stuff up or not.
Also, there's the problem of people asking their friends to bid in order to raise the HB. I have personally seen people doing this before and I know for a fact that the OP of the thread asked a friend to do it and the friend had no intention of actually buying the item. It worked, too.
But I guess we can't do anything about that, since how do we prove it to begin with?
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