A guy I once worked with, who's values I already questioned, asked me to bid some ridiculous sum on a Pandora bead his wife listed on eBay.
"What the h... am I going to do with a Pandora bead and WHY would I pay that kind of money for it??"
He said "oh, no, you wouldn't get the bead, she just needs to make sure it doesn't sell for less than she paid."
The then current bid was way below the going price and no one was bidding.
I said "NO."
Wouldn't surprise me if he had a buddy bid it up to a stupid sum just to drive it up. Hate to think that way about humanity, but it is what it is. I've met some of the best people I've ever known through my interest in guns and shooting. On the other hand, I've met some of the lowliest of low-lifes that way too. Worked for one for a while and he was a lying, two-faced, cheating,.... well, I can't say the rest here. He'd come in at the end of Saturday and clean out the cash box and go out the back door without paying me for the week. I started taking my bit out near the end of each day. When he questioned why the register was short, I explained that he has COSTS as well as revenue and one of those costs would be covered before he got his "revenue" from that point forward. Another trick was to take things in on trade that I wanted and keep them in lieu of the cash. Can't deal with a snake like it's a mouse.