i know exactly what happened. i put this on the forum on benheck.com. somebody else saw it on digitpress. it just so happens that the seller uses digit press. this is what the seller said:
Hello everyone I'm dugongatee and was the seller of this auction.
When I saw that my auction closed at $5,100 for FFVII GH - I was pissed. :angry:
I thought it was punk kids or something screwing up my auction.
Damaniel's scenario is correct. The winner was a newbie with (1) feedback that set a really high proxy bid. A second newbie that won one of my other auctions (FF7 disc 3 only GH - which he never paid) placed a high proxy bid of $5,000.
In short the winner contacted me afraid I would take her to court. She had been trying to find this game for her son. (could have just bought multiple "but it now" listings for cheaper) (?)
Taking every angle of this into consideration. I played nice guy.
We agreed a bid of $85.02 + $7.50SH - it's not 5G's!!! - but still great for a GH version.
She paid, I shipped, end of story. ( i feel so dirty) LOL
so in other words 2 n00bs were being stupid and set high maximum bids thinking no one would bid that high.