Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Originally Posted by Poconojack
Originally Posted by Fubarski

Wrong, as always.

That one guy bid against himself, pushed the price up thousands.

on 1/10 alone, he pushed it up $400.


Actually, that’s not what happened, he was not bidding against himself. He was bidding in $100.00 increments against the high bid that Joey Butafuco had already placed. When he caught JB at $6,500.00 and $7,000.00 Joey Butafuco’s bid which had been placed first remained the high bid.

I figured it was something like that.


Yes, the scenario that you proposed is called ‘backing up’ one’s bid which is what JB did a couple times in this auction.


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