Only if the reserve price has not been met by a bidder. The seller determines the bid increment. Because you are both registered users this should not occur. But of course the world isn't perfect and folks can ignore e-mail and telephone calls. If this doesn't work let us know and we will investigate and possibly ban them from the site.
Every reasonable precaution is taken but problems do occur.
A. List your experience in the ' Feedback ' section. This will warn other users. If the bidder doesn't have a compelling reason in our opinion then we will ban them from using the auction site. We don't want any bad apples in our barrel. A. See the Fees page.