What's the deal with this T206 on ebay?

[JP]

Originally Posted by Jim VB

I gave you the links to the two auctions. Next to "bid history", click on the number of bids and you'll see they were won by the same bidder.

O.K., I just did that. You're right....the guy who bought the Devin originally, is also the guy who bought it from me yesterday. I didn't want to confirm his username since only sellers are supposed to know buyers identities, and I didn't want to violate anyone's trust. But his username on eBay is not piedmont150 like it is in Net54, so I wasn't sure.

I have no idea why piedmont150 sold it to me for a loss and then bought it right back from me. But I do know that I didn't do anything wrong (just bought here and sold on eBay without knowing who anybody was) and I don't think there are any laws against owning the same card twice. And piedmont150 doesn't seem to have any advantage by buying it back at a loss...I mean he can't be trying to inflate the price since it keeps coming down. So I don't even know what you could be accusing anybody of, Jim? What am I missing here?

And let me ask you this, how was I supposed to know ANYTHING at all about who owned the card or how it was acquired before it was sold to me on this forum? And am I supposed to monitor every person who buys a card from me for any weird activity in the past? I can't even see who wins the auction until it closes!