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DavidI will include a note on this episode in my next newsletter which has a wide and varied readership. It appears to me, and frankly in other cases, that eBay is pulling an Arthur Andersen and protecting fraud rather than discouraging it. If shilling is illegal, I fear that eBay may find themselves in hot water down the road.
I note that I am not a punitive person and would have been satisfied if eBay merely acknowledged that there was shill bidding and sent a warning.