Nigel it is probably being schill bid , ebay dont give all info now as buyers could check and see who was doing it , i still bust a few , I have a reverse scam when i want to buy an article off ebay say a mower which i just purchased ,i go on and look, find what i am after and find who is schill bidding , you go onto feedback and check so called bidders look at their bids with this seller and if a few have abnormally amounts of percentage with that seller then you can look for them on all the items for sale , i usually then wait till Sunday night when they list them at a low start < They all finish at same price , i check over a few weeks .I then when i have identified which one has started schill bidding i report them , for some strange reason ? nobody then bids on item except me ,Does ebay warn huge sellers? I usually get items for under half price in stores here , So you see if you scam, sometimes it costs you . Also if they are bidding early they are newbies that dont know what they are doing ,not many auctions are won early , If i realy want to try to win i set what price i will pay ,i never bid more and bid late ,it doesnt give snipers or other bidders a chance to come back ,but if they have bid more earlier they win which i have no problem with , I know most of you as sellers dont like late bidders as you want a bidding war but i dont need any glass item that bad to enter into one , sometimes as i have to work 12 hour shifts at night i bid early but will usually come home to bid as late as possible , I have now bought large quantities from ebay and without it wouldnt have anything like i have , We have so much we are going to sell most Australian glass we have probably the lot in one go , We started thinking we could collect one of each piece of walther in each colour ,we now know its impossible so collect one of every piece in any colour , although would like to complete all colours in a couple of items , like a blue orla , a green scmettling , green glasgow,a large clear greta, REX