Greg Morris

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

I think at the least 661fish needs to put his full name under his post, no?

I have never bought from Greg Morris, and I really don’t know much about them. But - 661fish, your post takes balls (or no brains) and if you are going to publicly accuse someone of shill bidding, you need to put your full name under the post per the rules.

And since I effectively called you stupid, here is my full name (nice to meet you)

Ryan Hotchkiss

His name IS under his user ID.

[Rhotchkiss]

Only part of his name is, unless Fi.tze is a normal last name.

Look, bottom line is that a rule of this board is to give your name if you make a disparaging comment. Mr. Fi.tze made such a comment and thus needs to put his name (or confirm that his last name has a period for the third letter).

[Republicaninmass]

I had fair results using him. I did not have any of the high bidders on his other consignments bid on my cards. That being said, I dont believe I have ever seen the cards relisted by GM or sold raw by any one else

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

Only part of his name is, unless Fi.tze is a normal last name.

Look, bottom line is a rule if this board is to give your name if you make a disparaging comment. Mr. Fi.tze made such a comment and thus needs to put his name (or confirm that his last name has a period for the third letter).

Some people add dots, commas, or other things to their name so the bots don't gather their data. Not sure if it works but that is why it is done.

I will say Mr Morris has accurately graded raw cards. The other part is a matter of opinion on what you call shill bidding.

[sando69]

hi sean-
I see you are from California...
if you live in the los angeles area, this thread might interest you.

http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=270388

[gregmorris818]

I will say categorically, we have never, nor will we ever shill our auctions. If we see evidence of a consignor bidding on their own item or any type of suspicious activity whatsoever, that consignor will be prohibited from consigning again.

If the original poster has a concern about a particular auction or series of auctions, please tell me what those are so we have an opportunity to address it.

Greg

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by gregmorris818

If we see evidence of a consignor bidding on their own item or any type of suspicious activity whatsoever, that consignor will be prohibited from consigning again.

Just curious: do you look on your own (proactively) or only inspect questionable patterns (reactively)? Do you ever cross-check your bidders against the consignors?
I'm glad to see your policy differs heavily from PWCC's "you are allowed to bid on and even win your own items as long as you intend to pay for them" policy.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by gregmorris818

I will say categorically, we have never, nor will we ever shill our auctions. If we see evidence of a consignor bidding on their own item or any type of suspicious activity whatsoever, that consignor will be prohibited from consigning again.

If the original poster has a concern about a particular auction or series of auctions, please tell me what those are so we have an opportunity to address it.

Greg

Much nicer than telling him to go pound sand, which would've been justified.

[whitehse]

I have bought from Greg Morris many many times and I have zero doubt that they are NOT shill bidding. They have a huge following and they have customers spending good money on what is mostly quality cards. I know I have frequently bid above what I wanted to spend on some of the cards I have bought from them. In several cases, I had run up other bidders high bid because I pushed a card to my spending limit and somebody else bid higher. In addition to great cards being offered, their service is top notch. I can win a card one night and wait to pay for three or four days as I have other bids I am hoping to win and if I am successful they will combine shipping on all the lots I have won in the last week.

Shill bidding with Greg Morris.....nah...I am not seeing it.

[gregmorris818]

Thank you for the question. In the interest of transparency, I want to provide some information about our process.

We have three main ways of checking for suspicious activity on consigned cards:

First, we spot-check active auctions when prices seem to be getting much higher than we anticipated. We're also fortunate to have a very engaged customer base, and will often get messages if there are concerns about a specific auction, which allows us to check it out.

Second, we monitor bid retractions through messages that eBay sends us or if someone raises a concern. If we come across an account that has suspicious retractions we report them to eBay and block them.

Third, we look at unpaid wins on all consigned cards. If we connect an unpaid card with a consignor, the consignor is banned. The most challenging type of activity to detect is of course the possibility that a consignor could win cards through a proxy and then pay for them, which we also prohibit.

Lastly, please keep in mind that the three issues I discussed above have many nuances to them. I just wanted to give an overview.

Thank you to everyone who has voiced support for my business. I take accusations like this very seriously. I welcome the opportunity to defend myself, so if anyone has a specific auction they want to address, please message me. I'm not claiming we have a perfect system, and we can always do better, but I truly believe that we do an effective job at making sure our auctions are on the up and up.