Neilson Cobb is back...with a twist

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Posted By: brian parker

Once again this seller (who earlier put this card up for auction before he owned it, as documented in a previous posting) is up to some tricks--most of them the stupid pet variety:

http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=1983515471

Not only did the seller end the auction early (the second time for this card) because of the low bidder participation this time around (it was only just over $100), but he relisted it as a private auction with an opening bid of $5000. Ok, so what you say. Well, the lot has already received a bid of $5000. Fishy, you might think. But check out when that 'private' bidder placed their bid--less than four minutes after the lot was listed. It always takes around two hours to be able to access a listing, unless you search on the seller. Furthermore, on the previous listing for this card there was a retracted bid (retracted before the lot was pulled) by bha123 for $5100. Checking bha123's feedback, and one of the two he has is for this seller.

Hummmm....

Brian

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Posted By: Hankron

Interesting, Brian. I think in most of these cases, the seller is simply wasting his or her own time and dropping dollars in the eBay coffer. My off the cuff guess is that the seller paid too much for the card, and has a hard time cutting his losses. It's a hard thing to admit to yourself (ofen even more so than to others) that you were wrong and overvalued something in your collection.