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Paul I still haven't received a response to my complaint about the same shill bidding (you know, the "sweet and innocent" approach). I guess approach does not matter at all.
I think going to the media is the right idea. Perhaps another idea is to go to some ambitious assistant attorney in one of our 50 states. Given ebay's clear rules against shill bidding, and the public's right to rely on those rules, I suspect that Broadway Rick's conduct could be criminal fraud, though I'm not a criminal lawyer. We have more than enough evidence that ebay knows precisely what's going on, and a lawyer looking to make a name for himself might try to bring charges against ebay for covering up or conspiring with Rick. In the current Enron/Arthur Anderson environment, this could play real well. But maybe I'm just dreaming.