Shill Bidding defined

[ajquigs]

I had the same reaction.
I thought I recalled a different standard being stated by PWCC in the past and I found this 2015 post from Brent.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...errerid=617072

Policing Bidders:
On the topic of bid behavior it’s particularly frustrating to be accused of auction manipulation when I actually feel we are working to improve bidder behavior more than anyone else. It's impossible to watch every auction, but we police the bid as much as we can and have blocked more bidder ids for bad behavior than anyone else I know. As our company has matured we have had various policies come and go, some of which have proven more intelligent than others. For example one program I regret most was from 2009/2010 when we allowed consignors to place a single ‘reserve bid’ on a consigned lot if they received approval from us. This sort of thing was more-or-less accepted back in 2009 and we didn't think anything of it at the time (hidden reserves are still part of the hobby with many auction houses). In hindsight this wasn’t a smart program to have engaged in because it opened the door to abuse. We made a mistake offering this as a service and ended it in 2010. We certainly didn’t want to hurt the hobby and we have not offered this option for over 5 years. This is just an example of where we admit to being imperfect and we sincerely hope folks don’t hold this against us. Every business goes through a maturation and we continue to mature alongside the hobby at large.

[Republicaninmass]

Since every time he has made a posted it was in defense of so ething he already did, I believe this was in reaction to possibky uncovering pwcc_auctions was winning auctions from Pre_war_card_collector

[Dpeck100]

I don't know who all reads CU but I brought to the boards attention that the shill snipe bid was very common and identified it happening in PWCC auctions.

Because you can win your own item perhaps now it makes more sense.

Snipe bidding is loved but the shill's have joined that team and are using other methods than just the typical bump bidding.

They use the shill snipe to create the true hidden reserve and to stick it to the nuclear snipe bids.