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Posted By: ty_cobb

As I tend to be a bit moralistic at times you
must forgive me if indeed there is some wrongdoing
on ebay's part.

But I really don't like users having two ID's.
The term 'shill' itself to Me doesn't neccesarily
imply short term personal gain to an associate or
yourself, it can also to Me mean long term gain
by artificially raising prices on rare card issues.

In that sense I think that despite all the slagging
ebay gets it could potentially be better than a private
auction house, where hidded bidders can keep the price
of rare issues inflated and hide their identity.

Generally such bidders have the means and would gladly
pay for the item even IF they won, but winning is not
the intention so much as driving the price up.

Again no offense, I have grown up in a professional
sports household and enjoy sports memorabilia from
that perspective only, the machinations
and profit motives of dealers I have little use for.

All that being said, I'll agree with the other board
members that ebay should have banned a few others who
have done far worse things. (In particular the AAA
newspaper cutout thing apalls me.)