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Posted By: Steve

Let me first make it clear that I am not accusing Lelands of anything.

Barry, there is no way to 100% stop the practices you refer but I can tell you that we CLOSELY monitor all bids, especially of new bidders. Twice in our history a "friend" of a consignor has registered and only bid on items from that consignor. In each case, we banned the bidder and removed all bids. It is like anything else, if you are serious about solving the problem (as opposed to giving it de facto support), you can greatly contain the problem.

Also, my experience with some of the auction houses if that they will not "run" people up on lots under $2 or $3,000 but rather it is on the expensive items (like a certain card discussed extensively in another thread) that these things are more common.

Just my thoughts,
Steve