different folks have different bidding stategies ... maybe that bidder is attempting to frighten off would be competitors ... of course, it might've been a mistake on his part ... dunno how many others will 'fess up to this, but I know that when I was new to CBid and didn't know how to fix it, I made the mistake of meaning to set the auto-bid at a certain figure, but hit the 'bid' drop-down in error ...