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Originally Posted by carlsonjok
As you say, it isn't all that hard to find one suspicious transaction. What someone is not seeing here is what happens when you start to pull on that string. Maybe nothing. But, maybe the whole sweater comes unraveled.
What I think has gotten lost here is that the counter argument is an exercise in question begging. Despite the fact that the argument that "there are two many transactions to audit" is patently false, it presupposes that there is a will to prevent shill bidding.
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In that vein, on a number of occasions I pointed out to Brent serial retractors that were bidding in his auctions. Despite his announced policy of zero tolerance above a certain number of retractions, he (or Betsy) more often than not made excuses for the individual but did not ban them.
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