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Okay first off does anyone here use ebay? I use it alot and I somehow stubled upon these 1 cent auctions (the Buy It Now is set at 1 cent) and they just contain something like an eBook or a picture that is emailed to the winner. At first I though "Hey this is a smart way to get alot of positive feedback really fast". Seeing as I only buy off ebay its slow going for my feedback, so I was gonna bump it up a bit. Now I have a tendancy to check everyperson's feedback whos auction I bid on. And then I check the person that left them feedback's feedback and so on. I get pretty muddled. But back to the point now, these peoples feedback can have over 500+ positive and it can ALL be from these one cent auctions. Moreover I have the suspicion that these people create 10+ ebay accounts and just buy/sell from eachother. Now what the heck would be the point to that? It gets so muddled and crazy I have no idea whats going on, I am seriously confused at this point... I didnt find a single person who had only a couple of these one cent auctions and the rest as normal auctions.

Anyways I have no idea what the point to these are now and it has me all confused!! If anyone wants to see what I am talking about just go to ebay.com and search "recipe" or something like that and look for a 1 cent auction... then find the feedback and check out the items and everyone elses feedback/items and see what you get.

I just found this to be very strange and pointless. I mean I was going to do it just to bump my feedback up to 50 (I want that damn blue star!). But now I am kinda freaked out and dont want to do it!! I only bought a 1 cent apple pie recipe and a 99 cent dry rub recipe (cause this one might be real and I love BBQ). Tell me what you all think of this madness!