Thanks for posting the Munson cards as an example and looking at those they do look very suspect and I would refrain from bidding when I see things like that.
As I stated above, shilling and other crap happens everywhere but imo much more so on ebay. He is an example of a card I am currently watching that the pattern brings up a lot of red flags. Heck the card is for sale the 3rd time in less than 30 days, check out the bidders on the past auctions, also that many bidders with less than 100 feedback is more red flags, current bidding on new listing even more red flags, etc. You can find this daily on ebay and if not for services like VCP that can help point out these listing, I would be getting burned like I did in the past. I just wonder how many other collectors out there are getting taken in deals sales like this.
Here you go-
1911 Sporting Life TY COBB M116 (Pastel)
Current listing-
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1910-11-Spor...item1c2fb6c057
VCP-
Link to last two sales-
1/24/13 Sale-
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1910-11-Spor...p2047675.l2557
1/13/13 Sale-
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1910-11-Spor...p2047675.l2557
Funny how all three auctions have the exact same titles.....
Interested to see what others think about this as its not clear cut shilling but imo looks more like possible manipulation of pricing/value.