What is the Reverb "put it in your cart" game about?

[mrjamiam]

Although I shouldn't, I have returned to looking at (for) guitars on Reverb.  Some of the listings announce that the offering is in someone else's cart already, but days later it's the same thing.  One of them was in a cart for days, and when I checked just now it's in two more carts.

What is meant to be achieved by this?  It doesn't seem that someone was shopping, meant to make a purchase and then saw a squirrel.  I'm thinking it's a signal or a strategy of some kind.  Can anyone enlighten poor simple me, whose process is "see guitar, like guitar, buy guitar"?  I'm not much into gaming systems, although I know that it happens.

[hamerhead]

Head game. You see it in another cart and say, "Oh shit, I have to buy this right now before some other schmoe gets it."

Ebay bidding is the same deal - you'll exceed your max (and often the value of whatever it is) just to 'win'.

[mrjamiam]

5 hours ago, hamerhead said:

Head game. You see it in another cart and say, "Oh shit, I have to buy this right now before some other schmoe gets it."

Ebay bidding is the same deal - you'll exceed your max (and often the value of whatever it is) just to 'win'.

So, a shill account?  Or three shill accounts?  Etc.?

[Dave Scepter]

5 hours ago, hamerhead said:

 you'll exceed your max (and often the value of whatever it is) just to 'win'.

Only if you're a dumbass 😂

[mrjamiam]

I wondered if maybe it was trolling for the seller to offer a price break if it sat there in a cart and yet wasn't purchased.  Or maybe something that I can't even think of.