For someone who is so vocal about the complaints, I have yet to see any suggestions how to make it better.
Shilling will never be stopped. No AH can stop a friend/relative from bidding on an item...maybe the friend/relative really wants it. Maybe they are shilling. No way to prove it and no way to stop it.
Ebay is a place where both buyers and sellers can do underhanded things with auctions. Unless ebay changes rules, nothing can be done about that either.
I can absolutely see the appeal of AH over ebay. At least with the AH you can decide if you want to trust them or not. From there, you decide if you wan to do business or not. With ebay, you are dealing with a lot of unknown sellers and relying on a feedback which is probably not overly accurate anyway.
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