If an auction starts at 100 and someone plops 5K on it form the get go it will keep showing that bidders number every time someone else hits it until it surpasses the 5K mark right? This makes it look like the guy bid on it over and over or are you saying you think he put his own bid on it so that others just bids just pumped up the price? Too bad we can't see the bidder names anymore because of all the phony second chance offers. Then you may see a pattern.