LEW LIPSET - BLOCKED BIDDER

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Posted By: Scott Elkins

If it is not shilling, I don't know what to call it. If this were someone besides Lipset, I am certain we would all be calling it shilling. I have seen this board call out eBay sellers for shilling based on low feedback bidders bidding the card or items up. When someone goes to bed at 3:00 AM and the lot is two bids below his max bid and gets an invoice later in the day at his max bid, I really don't know what to call this other than shilling. I wish I had my old computer and files, as I had proof to all this on the computer. The proof I have now is Heather's word as well, since she answered the calls from Lew while I was out. She had to hang up on him the last time because of his rudeness!

I cannot speak for Jay. However, this is one reason I started another forum with Jay Behrens - to expose people, no matter who they are or how high they rank in the Hobby. There are always some on this board who seem to take the sides of major players in the Hobby or major auction houses when they do wrong. These people usually are the first to bash an eBay seller making an honest mistake or having zero feedback bidders bidding on their items. Going back to Mark's remarks about Lew's rudeness (which Heather and I experienced first hand), if this had been Joe Blow on eBay, there would be almost 100% agreement here that the person is a SOB and should not treat customers that way. Since it was Lipset, some simply believe Mark deserved it for not buying the item he requested scans of. Hell, I have sent SEVERAL scans to people over the years and they have not bought the items from me. Did I ban them from my auctions or be rude - NO! I even thank them for letting me know, so I can move on and sell to someone else (I did this tonight to a person inquiring about an SGC 80 T206 Powers I have for sale on the B/S/T thread).

I had several great dealings with Lew before this incident. I even acquired the T207 Red Cross Blackburne from him in a private deal. Stupid me even took his side when people bashed him for being hateful before this. I am simply telling what happened. I don't lie, nor am I starting to lie now with telling about this incident. It has been a few years since this happened. However, some members of this board have seen the e-mails Lipset sent me then with his threats of telling Rob Lifson and others if I didn't pay for this lot and not even responding to my questions asking how the lot went up two bids after the auction had ended. These members tried to get me to post about this incident then, but I did not b/c fearing there would be remarks like this not wanting to believe what had happened.

So, believe it or not, this DID happen - I swear to it. My physical proof is long gone with my old PC. All I have now are the words of my better half and myself.