can someone advise on this please

[hannahvn]

hi I'm new to all this so please bare with me
ive bid on this ((cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200420032706#ht_5580wt_1167 this))
its the third listing for it that i know of, apparently due to "timewasters" last time it went for £30 but immediately was re-listed. (hmm)
This time i bid a max of £20.69 straight away, now i see its had four other bids three of which have been quickly retracted until the bid went to my max, I'm thinking that somethings not quite right about this i.e. seller working out my max bid and trying to make me bid more. poss whats happened before and shes ended up winning her own item? using two ebay accounts?
could you guys advise please
hope this makes sense

its shill bidding and she is bidding on her on her own item, I would retract my bid and look at something else.

you can report her for this

Agree. I'd report it. There is no innocent explanation for that activity.

Sounds like shill bidding to me. Report it to Ebay.

I've looked at her feedback and she has sold several times to a couple of people. This might be genuine, but sets alarm bells ringing for me. I would steer clear if I were you.

I've never seen that before! I didn't even know you could retract a bid!

Ouch her listings hurt the eyes!!!

Look at this

It looks like she doesn't want you to bid because of how she has put 'please do not bid' in big flashing letters seperately from the rest of the sentence.

Report her for shill bidding.

Chillo, the 'please do not bid' is in relation to the ;if you do not like my terms'

Yes that's what I mean. She's put the 'please do not bid' separate from the start of the sentence so it looks odd.

Have a lovely Christmas, Knickers

Goof bay is excellent for snooping on suspicious traders!
have a look here
there are a number of items she seems to have sold twice - I ignored the dvds and playstation games but if you look at her baby items she has sold the leapfrog thing and the 2 blossom farm items twice, obviously not satisfied with a 99p sale she puts them on again.
Definitley suspicious trading!

her listings do hurt the eyes a lot!

it's also strange that all her listings are for private sales so when you look at her feedback as a seller you can't see what she has sold - on the ebay site - you can on goofbay however!

Yes, private sales always make me suspicious. If it's for rude or embarrassing stuff, then fair enough. But I don't see that's it's necessary for most people.

thanks for that, i've reported her, not sure now to delete my bid and if i do it will be interesting to see if the other bid disappears as well!

reported but nothing happened. sold for £26 it was on my watching items and now ive just seen shes relisted again for the 4th time! cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200424389943#ht_4242wt_1167

not much you can do apart from report it again. She is definitely at it!