Bill Mastro denies widespread fraud in his auctions -- yesterday.

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Originally Posted by bcornell

It's difficult to kick Bill Mastro and others when they're down when you have no idea whether they defrauded you.

Bill, prices have been inflated going forward for every shilled item in a Mastro auction as falsely high values are assigned to these cards. Even if somehow you bid in a Mastro auction and did not get shilled by Bill and the gang, you still felt the bite of their fraud down the road. In addition, the falsely high prices Mastro got in his auctions surely caused other auction houses to shill bid as well or allow consignors to run wild on their lots in an effort to keep up with the high prices and maintain or get new consignors.