I was once in an eBay auction for a car when the same thing happened. In my case the "winning bidder" retracted with 5 minutes left after bidding the car up. I complained about this "shill bidding" (which is very illegal) and to my surprise eBay caught the guy and barred him. Please take Sean's advice and get the IP address tracked. If the shill is smart, he used a different computer, if he's not ... well hopefully Agon can find him. And if the IP is from a different city, well then you might want to take the speakers. --Lorne
Suspicous Speaker Auction ?
I just participated in a speaker auction, this brand speaker is highly rated and was being auctioned by a dealer, as I bid it seemed that I would hit a lever and it would stay there for awile and then take a big jump, I bowed out at 50% of list and the winning bid was only $20 higher, anyway I had a funny feeling about this auction, 2 days after the auction was over the dealer contacted me and said the winning bidder had defaulted and that I could have the speakers, this kind of confirmed my suspicions, I don't want to name names as I may be way off base here, but I am wondering if any others have had similar experiences ?