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Originally Posted by sycks 22
Look at the bidding. That's the definition of shill bidding. There was a guy with 0 feedback who has 80% of his bidding with this seller.
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Although I agree with Mark/perez fan that I too find it a bit odd that two bidders with zero feedback both made substantial bids, I don't believe that this auction was shilled.
Take a look at the bidding history below and you'll see that the winning bid was sniped with just 6 seconds left in the auction.
The bidder with the user name 9***j made a cap bid of $1100 on Nov 30 at 13:51:58 PST. That would have put him the high bidder at $986.98 with still just over two hours left in the auction!
After an hour and fifty four minutes passed and with less than 10 minutes remaining in the auction, he felt the need to bump up his cap bid. I will go out on a limb and say that just about everyone on this board has done that at least once. At that time he bumped it to $1200. Seconds later he went to $1250. And at 15:51:39 he made his final bump to $1520 only to lose out in the closing seconds.
So, the question that must be asked is "If he was shilling, just who was he shilling?" as the eventual winner's snipe had not yet been placed, and he (9***j ) was still the high bidder with a cap set at $435 higher than his current high bid!!
It is my belief that 9***j was not a shiller at all, but a person who knew exactly what he was doing and what the mug's true value was. What I think happened was that 9***j did not want opposing bidders and/or friends to know that it was 'He' who won (if of course he had won) the mug.
We all know that it's not that difficult to track bidders, even with ebay's attempt to disguise user IDs especially those already known to you. So many have chosen the route to add another ebay account in order to fly under the ebay radar. As there are times that one might not want a friend or fellow collector to see every purchase they make on ebay.
Well, that's what I think happened. This is what happens to you when you're always up by yourself all night, every night, for a few decades. You look for things to help pass the time... Thank God for the Internet!
Member Id: e***n( 3899) US $1,545.00 Nov-30-11 15:54:27 PST
Member Id: 9***j( 0 ) US $1,520.00 Nov-30-11 15:51:39 PST
Member Id: 9***j( 0 ) US $1,250.00 Nov-30-11 15:46:05 PST
Member Id: 9***j( 0 ) US $1,200.00 Nov-30-11 15:45:42 PST
Member Id: 9***j( 0 ) US $1,100.00 Nov-30-11 13:51:58 PST
Member Id: 9***1( 5412) US $976.98 Nov-28-11 15:48:48 PST