Match Worn Shirts

As many of you will know, the shirts worn at the Stoke game are being auctioned off in aid of the British Legion. You can see the current state of the bidding here https://matchwornshirt.com/club/59

Take a look at Cam McGeehan's shirt. It's miles above the others at £640. If you look closely, you'll see it went from £212 to £640, with 3 successive bids from the same bidder, within about 60 seconds. Why would you outbid yourself? Has anyone used this before, it looks very strange to me?

 

Maybe a glitch because whenever I click the link the McGeehan shirt is only at £212?

 

Bizarre, you're correct! Good job I took a screen shot. It's almost as if people are being encouraged to place higher bids than necessary.....

 

Could it be like eBay? You put in a maximum bid but increases in your bid only show if someone else makes a bid. (If that makes sense?!).

 

I've never used eBay, so no, it doesn't make sense

There's a similar story on the Patrick Schmidt shirt. It went from £143 to £200, with 2 bids from the same bidder within 30 seconds. It's very strange maybe Newsbot is bidding?

 

Fair play to anyone willing to pay 3 figures for a permanent reminder of that game, that's true charity. I'm trying to erase it from my memory

 

Mike Bahre wasn't even on the bench but his shirt is on.

Elliot Simoes isn't even on the list but was on the bench

 

Think of it like this:

Current bid- £15

I really want the item, so I tell eBay I’ll bid up to £20

ebay lists the current auction price as £16, as I’ve outbid the £15 bid.

If someone then bids £17, they will then automatically up my bid to £18, and so on up to my maximum bid of £20.

As a result, if I put a max bid of £20 on, and then decide actually I’d pay up to £25, and then again decided I’d bid up to £30, that would register as three separate bids, despite the fact the auction price has never actually gone up from my initial £20 bid.

not saying for sure that’s what has gone on here though!

 

Thank you, that at least explains how it could happen. However, it doesn't explain why the Cam McGeehan shirt went from £212 to £640 in 60 seconds, then a while later it went back to £212 again. Looks very fishy to me.

 

At those prices they must be bidding for the shirts themselves.

 

Imagine bidding £186 for a Malik Wilks shirt from a 4-2 defeat at home to Stoke. Some people must have more money than sense, or a very generous heart.

 

I bought Leroy Lita’s shirt on the 1914-2014 centenary, in a frame on my office wall, he was tiny !

 

There's something not quite right about it, I tend to agree. It's quite bizarre.

 

Seems like someone from Hong Kong has bid for Wilks, he must be popular over there.

 

I can see how it might appear fishy if you’ve not used auction sites before but this sort of thing happens. Auto bids up to a maximum can happen very quickly. Also on some sites you can withdraw a bid within a certain time. Folk can use that to see what maximum bids are set for a particular item. If you do it a lot you get barred.
There must have been a minimum for the shirts as well.

 

I've actually had an email from them confirming that the McGeehan bids were removed as they were "irregular". They explained that it often happens that people place 2 or more bids one after the other, for example if they know they can't get online when the auction ends, in this case at 15:00 today. Still can't believe the prices though!!!!!

 

Bidding finished now. Very interesting to see what was bid for each shirt.
Luke Thomas £351
Alex Mowatt £267
Cauley Woodrow £260
Cameron McGeehan £234
Bambo Diaby £232
Dmitri Cavare £231
Patrick Schmidt £225
Jacob Brown £216
Aapo Halme £209
Kenny Dougall £209
Brad Collins £187
Conor Chaplin £187
Malik Wilks £186
Tony Sibbick £165
Sammy Radlinger £165
Clark Odour £164
Mike-Steven Bahre £146
Mads Anderson £143

 

Put four zeros on the end of Mowatt and Woodrow's and that would be more realistic. But the rest seem about bang on....

They are the actual player values right???

 

I did the same with Luke Berry, the smallest man's football shirt I've ever seen.

 

I'd pay £186 not to have his shirt