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Originally Posted by Runscott
Where did you come up with such logic? From 'avoid known cheats' to 'avoid everyone'?  The balance you speak of is achieved by avoiding dishonest sellers. Many of us do so, and our collections are not bad.
I have not studied PWCC or Probstein's auctions and bidding history, and I have ignored most of the posts that do so, but it's hard to ignore the responses in these discussions that advocate complacency when shilling is discovered. |
Scott, that logic is just an attempt to address the notion that all or many prices are inflated because of past shilling. And therefore, if one doesn't want to be a victim of shilling, and yet many prices even in unshilled auctions are in effect "retroactively shilled," if you will, then it becomes a slippery slope.