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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 3041359, member: 5833&quot;]I have been alerted to cameos I otherwise would have overlooked by their appearance on a list of cameos currently on eBay ordered by how many watchers.&nbsp; Some of them are things I have bid on.&nbsp; It plays no role in whether or how much I&#039;m willing to spend.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have noticed a change in bidding over the last handful of years: many more early bids bringing the price up, especially if there is someone who insists on staying in the lead, against their own best interest, ahead of an auction&#039;s end.&nbsp; What I used to see was maybe a few early bids not much over the minimum, &amp; then, if it was a desirable item, a flurry of last minute bidding.&nbsp; High bids placed in advance of the end I assumed to have been placed by someone who could not be at a computer at the end.&nbsp; Something that would have had 8 bids in the past now has 20 or more.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if they are shill bids or not.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know why someone feels the need to be in the lead with 5 days to go, but they&#039;re the ones the shills can influence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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