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Yes Phil, those bidders (mostly me) were an attempt to make the listing look suspicious.
The first bidder's UserID in the auction was some form of the word broadcaster, the next four bidders (Bidder 2, Bidder 3, Bidder 4, and Bidder 5) were 4 of my own eBay accounts, used to make the auction look suspicious by bidding the item up fast from 4 different accounts in just a five minute period. One particular account that I used is eBay UserID coinfraudbuster, an account I've only used in the past to alert others to auctions dealing in counterfeit coins. Unfortunately, now that eBay has employed the Bidder 1, Bidder 2, etc. nomenclature, the anti-fraud name of that account is invisible to potential bidders in auctions over $200.
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