Please tell me why anybody would bid on an auction item before the last 10 seconds of the auction? If anybody bidding really wanted to win the auction, they would never run the price up by bidding early. It only increases the final price for them, if they really intend to buy the item. Are these really employees instructed to run the price up? Nobody could be stupid enough to not realize they are only increasing the price for their self by bidding early. The person who wins the item is the person who bids in the last 10 seconds or less. Who are these mysterious people running the price up for no reason? Why do they never bid in the last 10 seconds. Could it be they are only trying to run the price up for others? They know they will not win, but run the price up anyway? Seems like it might be fraud! Have you noticed how their names are always the same? They run the price up for others and then stop bidding at the time they really could actually win the item (in the last 10 seconds or less).