The battle to be the Godwalker of the Impulse Shopper is played out on eBay…

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Who knows how they can tell what to bid on, but it happens: two people, sometimes more, bidding increasingly insane amounts for practically worthless items on eBay. I mean $1,000,873 for a faux-antique pin? Please! See, the winning seems to be the important part, ’cause after the auction, they cancel their bids… all of them.

I’ve been talking to the admin@, and they’ve been keeping files on these characters… account numbers, etc, so they shouldn’t be too hard to track down. Claim’s the demographic is suburban housewives blowing though their husband’s hard-earned cash, but who knows how he’s getting that from the raw data.

It’s like an organized competition sometimes. None of them use sniping services, it’s all timing by hand. Since the item was worthless to begin with, the initial owners are rarely pissed when their multi-million dollar “auction” shrivels up.

Not earth-shattering, just weird. Really wierd. OK… weird for a geeky network usage analyst, so maybe not that strange to most people, but…

I’ll… just shut up now.