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  "id": 14148,
  "title": "Overbidding own bids",
  "url": "/competitions/facebook-recruiting-iv-human-or-bot/discussion/14148",
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  "post_date": "2015-05-11T18:26:34.417Z",
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  "content": "<p>Hello! There are many cases when a user overbids his own bids.&nbsp;Does it mean these users play for seller or does it it mean some data is missing?<br>For instance, see auction&nbsp;o6x75.</p>",
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      "id": "77919",
      "postDate": "05/11/2015 18:26:34",
      "content": "<p>Hello! There are many cases when a user overbids his own bids.&nbsp;Does it mean these users play for seller or does it it mean some data is missing?<br>For instance, see auction&nbsp;o6x75.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "78105",
      "postDate": "05/12/2015 18:29:35",
      "content": "<p>The bids are only in constant increments, so this is probably the user trying to bid up the price beyond just one constant.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "78109",
      "postDate": "05/12/2015 18:41:41",
      "content": "<p>Yes, this could be.&nbsp;If so,&nbsp;I would expect all the bids were made from a single&nbsp;device, ip, url and within a short timeslot, which is not the case.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>see bids of auction '04hdj'&nbsp;</p>",
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    {
      "id": "78137",
      "postDate": "05/12/2015 23:18:31",
      "content": "<p>I agree with Artem. &nbsp; I have trouble believing that story based on what I have seen in the data. &nbsp; There seems to be 3 distinct periods of bidding and some of these multi-bid single bidder auctions extend over multiple periods. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>",
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    {
      "id": 78105,
      "author_name": "frankportman",
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      "post_date": "05/12/2015 18:29:35",
      "content": "<p>The bids are only in constant increments, so this is probably the user trying to bid up the price beyond just one constant.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 78109,
      "author_name": "zaborskiy",
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      "post_date": "05/12/2015 18:41:41",
      "content": "<p>Yes, this could be.&nbsp;If so,&nbsp;I would expect all the bids were made from a single&nbsp;device, ip, url and within a short timeslot, which is not the case.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>see bids of auction '04hdj'&nbsp;</p>",
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    {
      "id": 78137,
      "author_name": "bryantravissmith",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/12/2015 23:18:31",
      "content": "<p>I agree with Artem. &nbsp; I have trouble believing that story based on what I have seen in the data. &nbsp; There seems to be 3 distinct periods of bidding and some of these multi-bid single bidder auctions extend over multiple periods. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>",
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