Agreed - a lady in my company was told by the agent that someone...

Agreed - a lady in my company was told by the agent that someone else was "seriously interested" in a house they were looking at here in the Brisbane suburbs, but no specifics were mentioned about the other offer, so she and her husband bumped up their offer by $10K - admittedly it's not a huge amount, but they're not millionaires, and the seller let it slip when they were signing the paperwork that they were the only people to officially make an offer