Ebay Poker

Anybody ever play ebay poker? I'm sure they must have, ebay poker is the name I've given to it. Basically you bid on auctions you have no intent on winning, your aim is to make the eventual buyer pay as high a price as you can. It's a bit like a shill bid only youre not working for the seller, youre just a malicious old bastard acting out your fantasy of being a politician, screwing the tax payer for every penny!

You can tell the good auctions to go for, mid interest items with a group of bidders each trying to out do each other, or specialist items running low on time with just one bidder who's an obvious fanatic, like for example, a star wars item being bid on by a user called "jedifreak69". There are two types of poker player, those who continue to up the price by a euro each time, and those who perhaps like to breeze around like the duke, flashing a single high bid on one item, leaving behind a melee of nerds each feverishly increasing their maximum bid price on a baggie of Martin Kemp's hair.

Thats the ultimate roulette auction game, playing "the maximum bid". If you see an item with just one bidder, you have a good chance that they have set a maximum bid. You just have to keep increasing your bid by the lowest denomination until your nerve goes. If you do end up being the highest bidder, it wont be by much and the chances are that the original bidder will outbid you again and probably set a new maximum bid once more, so the fun continues.

Another variation is to bid on an item with 0 bidders, and hope that someone will outbid you. I don't like that game so much, you tend to end up with a lot of junk around your house.

Its so satisfying to come back to an ended auction, seeing that there were only two bidders, yourself and the winner, and knowing that the winner paid a higher price just because of you acting the bollocks! Its not a crime, its a service to the seller!