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Originally Posted by theuclakid
IMO the auction house or consignment service is ultimately responsible as it is their platform, and they are allowing these fraudulent consignors to use their platform to bid on their own consigned items (shill bidding), and then not pay for the item if they win, ultimately to create a false selling point....then the item is re-listed...IMO PWCC has not been the only online seller who has permitted this in their auctions
Bruce Perry
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I would agree with you if you're talking about their Premier Auctions that they recently started hosting on their own platform, but historically, all of PWCC's sales have been hosted on eBay's platform. eBay is the only party that has access to all the relevant data to be able to determine who is shill bidding. PWCC has no access to this data. How can they possibly be held responsible? At least PWCC bans non-paying bidders from participating in future auctions. That's about as much as they can possibly do to prevent shill bidding.