Do you guys ever bid on an auction you don't want to win?

gregpj · 2013-03-22T14:42:33.000Z

I know it kind of sounds like "Storage Wars" but do any of you ever bid on an auction you don't care to win? I must admit I did that with a Cafe Corner auction recently... I saw the first bidder was someone with 0 feedback who bid 0.99 on a used CC. I put a bid in at $350 knowing full well that it wouldn't win but if it did then it would be a steal of a deal (the box and instructions were in great shape, it was claimed to have never been in the sun, etc). By the time I got the outbid notice, the number of bids was around 35 and it was just by one person meaning they must have been trying close to $5 increments. It was kind of fun... the auction is now up to $565 US with 53 bids.