When I think an auctioneer is taking fake bids or if I think someone is bidding just to run me up my first move is to stop bidding like I'm thinking about if I've hit my maximum. That tends to shake out the fake bids or the people bidding with no intention of buying.
When we first got married we were at an estate sale. It was a smallish household estate held in the evening during the work week - it was small crowd. They had a lost quite a few people when they got to a washer and dryer set - actually pretty nice and fairly new. The auctioneer tried to start at $500 for the pair then backed up to $50 - I bid. He knew I had spent a lot of time looking them over (and I was the only one) and he immediately had a second bid for $100 then $125 and turned and looked hard at me waiting for my $150 bid - I didn't. My wife whispered ,Its still a good price, and I told her back - ,He doesn't have any bids but mine,. When he realized I wasn't biting and he couldn't get another bid (we both knew they were still cheap at $150), he yells SOLD and points to some poor guy walking away and says ,Its yours, the guy walking away looks at him and protests ,I wasn't bidding,. The auctioneer says OK we'll back her up to the next bid - completely skipping over the other fake $100 bid he goes back to my $50 bid and quickly says SOLD! This auctioneer was pretty well respected in the community but I learned my lesson.
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