I also think the fact that eBay charges you so much to set a reserve price on your auctions is a big part of why there's so much shill bidding on their platform. It costs them nothing to allow you to set a reserve price, yet if you want to place a $10k reserve on an auction, they charge you a $250 fee lol. That's so ridiculous. They're practically begging people to shill bid with a burner account instead. If they just allowed it for free, or for a $1 fee or something like that, then it would get rid of the vast majority of shill bidding. But ebay makes more money by charging for it and allowing people to shill bid instead, so the current shill-bids-a-plenty landscape at eBay shouldn't be a surprise.
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