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T206Collector...shilling is considered fraud and is an illegal practice: people are entering into a buying agreement based on false pretenses.
Why it doesn't bother me as a bidder is because I have never paid more for a card than I was willing to pay at that time. Would I have liked to have a shilled card cheaper than I was willing to pay? You bet. But that goes for anything I pay money for.
Ask yourself this question -- if you saw a card you were willing to pay $500 for on ebay, and you knew it was going to be shilled up from $300 to $495, would you still buy that card?
Maybe you change your mind because the value is really closer to $300. But, again, theoretically you are still making a transaction you were willing to make voluntarily.
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