Thread: Am I the victim of a shill?
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Old 04-01-2007, 08:29 PM
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Default Am I the victim of a shill?
Posted By: Mike

I don't want to out an auction, but I'm watching an item that has a masked bidder (thanks again ebay) with 60 bid retractions the past 30 days. The suspected shill has bidded multiple times over the past few days, and the auction still has several days left. What concerns me is if a shill keeps bidding up an item only to retract their final high bid when it looks like there won't be anymore bids. Is this a common practice with shills? I can't think of any legitimate reason why a bidder would retract so many bids in 1 month.

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