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Originally Posted by ibuysportsephemera
I am finally getting back to this thread. I want to make it perfectly clear that I was not in anyway saying that I though Henry was shill bidding.
In the above post Steve says exactly what I was thinking. Thanks.
HOWEVER, I would like to point out is that it really is easy to shill in Henry's auctions. I believe that he takes consignments. If that is the case, what is to stop the consignor from having another eBay user bump up the price. Henry would not even know it.
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That can be the case for any auction house or Ebay seller that takes consignments. Have a friend bump up the price.
I accept consignments for my Ebay auctions on a regular basis. I would hope I would notice if something fishy is going on. Like the same bidder bumping up a ton of auctions from the same consignor and not paying on the ones he won.
There would be a pattern. Not just the typical NPB here and there.
If I found out a consignor was messing with auctions, I would make a point not to ever deal with them again, no matter the material they were offering.
Of course I don't do anything near the scope of Henry's auctions. I imagine it would be hard to notice something fishy going on when you have 1600 auctions running at one time.