Has anyone else run into this issue on ebay? You enter you maximum bid for an item and sometime later, someone exceeds it. So you say, ok, fine, I'm out. Then, that person withdraws their bid and it drops down to the previous level.
On ebay, it's not difficult to w/draw a bid. You just go to the retract a bid section here and say that you entered the bid by mistake and poof, it's gone -
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?RetractBidShow
What I'm wondering, is who would have the most interest in doing this. My guess is the person selling the item. They sign up for another account, log in from a vpn and see how the bidding is going. This way, if it looks like they're not going to get what they want, they can w/draw the item.