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Originally Posted by glchen
This argument really reminds me of steroids in baseball...
The FANS love the home runs and offense!
The OWNERS love increased gate revenue and higher TV contracts!
The PLAYERS love their names in the record books and the higher salaries from increased revenue!
The "only" people who get hurt are the players who don't want to take steroids but find that they are not able to get a job in MLB b/c of all of the steroid users producing better numbers.
It's the same thing in this situation. Consignors, even honest ones, will flock to those auction houses that seem to bring the highest prices. So the honest auctioneers will tend to get less consignments. Those consignors who don't shill will get lower prices on their consignments, which may be flipped by consignors who do shill, inflating the VCP average. Then honest buyers see these average selling prices and think that these are the prices they can sell their cards in the future, but it's all a mirage created by this shilling.
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not saying I agree with shilling..its very bad ..BUT and this is a big BUT:
THERE IS NO INCENTIVE TO STOP....and a big incentive to continue to shill...
IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP IT, that is the problem..
how many theads has Probstein been subject of for letting shill bidders consign with him...its never ending and he has no incentive to stop it!
even when they are caught red handed (as been shown here plenty of times) THEY DONT STOP.....
actually I think they get more brazen AFTER the get caught and have no repercussions....