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bidding on something you dont want just so someone you dont know has to pay more is probably the most cu*ty thing you can do on ebay. its unfair, childish, pointless and personal, trying to hit someone where it hurts for no reason.

at the moment im very tight on money, so on the odd occasion when i really want something and have to scrape my pennies together to buy it, if i found out someone did that to me just so i either couldnt have the item or had to pay more (which i probably couldnt afford) i would literally have to hunt them down (costing me even more money in travel and the cost of a new aluminum baseball bat)

he has no right to do that. i dont know if there is a rule against that on ebay, but if in an ebay message he has freely admitted he was only bidding to bump the price up for you and didnt even want the item, surely thats not etiquette and fair play.

i know for a fact sellers arent allowed to use another account to bump up the price, its illegal. but probably different if its just an a-hole who is not selling the item wanting you to pay more...