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People have created accounts and bid on their own stuff to try to raise the price. If caught, they are deleted from the system by E-bay. As many people wait until the last few minutes to make a bid, it is probably the surest way to win something.
That is, make sure to bid your maximum value, i.e., bid the absolute maximum that you would be willing to pay for the item (at least by the end of the auction). eBay is effectively a second-price auction. That is, the highest bidder wins the item and pays the second highest bid for it. Yes, that isn't quite how eBay works because the highest bidder can pay up to the increment over the second highest bid because of the proxy bidding system that eBay uses.