No, there were two high bidders. One guy bid $9001, then another guy kept bidding more and more until he found the 1st guy's high point.
As for the legitimacy; once the seller tells people to go ahead and bid it up as high as you want, then it really becomes a non-legit auction in my mind. The bottom line is there was no legitimate bid for $9000, so the article with the tagline reading "a father sold his son's coveted "Guitar Hero III" video game on eBay as punishment, and made over $9,000" is not a legit article; as the link provided in the news article disproves the accuracy of the article.
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