I Don't Understand This About eBay...

[oldfoneguy]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/266924308264?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=CETwASvZRdm&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=vzWtgAVcRH G&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

So this above M1905 bayonet ended on ebay yesterday at 11.44 am local time. What strikes me as strange is even though it had 1 bid on it and no reserve it immediately came back up for sale within minutes of the auction ending. I only know this because I have an active search for these with ebay and I get emails when new ones come up. I was watching this auction with dubious interest because it's so pitted and in such nasty condition I was wondering if anyone would bid on it.

Now it's not possible that the seller bid on it with a ghost account for the initial bid and automatic bidding to try to get the price up on it would he? But that's unethical and things like that don't happen on ebay, do they?

All sarcasm aside THIS is the very reason I no longer bid on anything on ebay. It has become ridiculous there with this kind of activity and it's both blatant and obvious yet ebay does nothing to stop it. If an item has neither a buy it now or make offer option I just pass it buy. Remember when you could bid on something and won it for a decent price, before the swoopers showed up and grabbed it with 7 seconds left in the auction only to see it relisted a week later with the identical listing and a higher initial price? Rant over.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/266924308264?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=CETwASvZRdm&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=vzWtgAVcRH G&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media

Trying the link again