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Posted By: warshawlaw

Just received an email from BRSZ addressed to "Dear Sir" (so I think it was a mass email and I don't mind sharing it here) purporting to apologize for his past indiscretions. Unfortunately, the explanation of the shill bidding is indicative of deep problems and profound denial:

"Regarding the shill bidding, I was contacted by a newspaper and instead of speaking to them off the record as most would, I told them the hard facts. I had listed a piece that I had forgotten to put a reserve bid on. I was not trying to increase the bid to make money but merely to cover the cost of the item so that I would not lose money. I realized that I made a mistake and have never done it again."

How is this false? Let me count the ways:

1. It was not one piece, it was multiple lots. I found several.

2. When outed, BRSZ changed to a private auction format and went on the attack against his detractors until the news article surfaced quoting him.

3. The mistake was never rectified with the people he cheated. As far as I know, the one successful bidder who overpaid for his set was not reimbursed nor were the people cheated out of their auction wins by the shilling permitted to buy the cards for their last true bids.

4. The newspaper was not the basis for the uproar; I found the info on ebay itself after another N54 member outed the first of the shilling efforts and wrote a VCBC article on it.

We have BRSZ's reassurance that there won't be any shilling in his auction. As Dr. Evil might say: "Riiiiiight"