[travrosty]

just bidding a lot with one seller might not mean and probably does not indicate shill bidding. you are right, you need more than that.

this guy i caught had 3 or 4 indicators of shill bidding, and when i informed him, he acted very strange, he was not very defensive about it when i suggested shill bidding like you would expect if he was totally innocent and he is a boxing collector/seller whose name most would recognize too. i told him to stop or i would report the activity to ebay. i eventually did report it but nothing got done. ebay is hesistant to do anything.

I bid on an auction of his and the shill kept bidding me up until i couldnt bid any more. i let the seller know something was fishy here. he cancelled the sale before it ended and said that if i believed there was shill bidding he would cancel the auction and start the auction over. hardly the actions of someone who was innocent.