Glen Block in PA has filed a suit against eBay saying that their system sometimes "tricks" you into bidding against yourself. If you already have the high bid and enter another bid to raise your maximum bid it will increment your already-highest bid. I don't know the conditions under which this happens, and it does not appear to happen all the time, but I have seen it after auctions have ended and did not understand how it could happen. The winner had the two highest bids, one increment apart. Maybe if your maximum bid is only one increment or less greater than the second-highest bidder? Anyway, when it happens it does not seem right and looks like a mistake.
Ebay's official response was that the suit filer "did not understand the bidding process."
Has anybody else seen this or "understand" it?
Keith