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Posted By: davidcycleback

My personal point of view is a shiller is a person who makes a specific and calculated effort to cheat collectors in a way he thinks he can get away with. The question for the collector isn't so much about the known shilling (that's just a matter of money), but about what other areas or potential areas might the dealer willing to do things because "the buyer will never find out." It blows my mind when I read on a chatboard about a collector who purchases autographs from a dealer who the collector himself knows to be a shiller.

For one's reputation alone, allowing relatives to bid, even innocently, in one's auctions is playing with fire.