EBAY scamming millions???

[indianflash]

Sorry title is harsh sounding, but I need to see if this has happened to anyone else or have you ever notice it.


I bid on a sony remote control for one of the lcd tv's I got in my load. It was a 3 day auction and when I saw it someone bid the minimum 9.99 free shipping. I thought Ill just wait it out till the end 5min of he auction and bid then.
I have ebay on my mobile phone so when there was 2 min left I bid my max bid to be 15bucks. I watched and kept hitting refresh to see if anyone else bid. NO bids last few seconds left kept doing it no bids my next bid after that 9.99 was 10.49 and the auctions ended and 10.49 was the highest bid, which was mine. Later I went ahead and got off ebay on my (iphone app by the way) and 30min or so I got back on to go ahead and pay my fees to my suprise it had my max bid 15bucks and looked bogus 5 bids when clearly I hit refresh all the way to the end of the auction and was clearly ahead with that second bid.

So what I was thinking is that ebay cheat and since I was willing to pay 15any way, made bogus bids after the auction ended.

Its just an idea running in my mind, thats why I need more peoples opinions. I guess they track people when they get on and off there site, since I was not on the actual ebay site but rather the one on my iphone they had no record that I was there till the end to see that the auction ended at 10.49 which was my proxy bid after the first 9.99 bid.

I see something fishy and want to bring it out to ebay and the ebay community but I need more proof if this is really happening or not.

They alwasy want to help the seller in this case it does and it helps themselves. BUT IT HURTS THE MILLIONS OF BUYERS THAT CHOOSE EBAY OVER THE OTHER ONLINE MARKETPLACES.

I knew I always hated ebay!!

[premieronineretail]

pretty much...

[palletsurfer]

One thing to consider is what network engineers call "network latency." It's a processing delay of internet  packets between the source and destination. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency_(engineering) for a more detailed technical explanation.

Network latency can be be worse from a wireless data service. It has to do with how many  network paths the source packets have to travel through to get to their destination.

The reason I mention this is I've seen network latency work in my favor as a seller on Ebay. Even though I hit refresh  over and over in the final seconds of my auction, the final bid was  much higher than the last bid I saw. This means the winning bidder had a shorter network path to the Ebay servers than me.