Am I being dense in thinking that if Judy Garland had autographed the
poster that she would have signed it "Judy" and not "Dorothy"? Duh...
Also the border of this "original poster" was conveniently trimmed to
cut off any identifying markings of the company that reproduced it.
I might accept that it is barely possible there is someone with over 500
feedbacks stupid enough to fall for this and buy it for $589 (from a
seller with 7 feedbacks no less), but I'm not willing to believe there
are *two* such people and that they both saw and both bid on this same
auction. It's 99% certain both top bidders are shills.
Although eBay does not provide enough information in the jokingly-named
"bid history" these days to tell anything about a bidder, the supposed
winning bidder has only bid on 2 posters in the past 30 days -- this and
one other. The guy he outbid (whose maximum was $579) only bid on 1
poster in the past 30 days -- this one. There are some people who set up
"shill bidder" accounts 5 or even 10 years ago on eBay and have been
building up the feedback of those shill bidding accounts so they look
"real". And they don't necessarily have an exclusive connection with a
particular seller. There are some sell shill bidder services
clandestinely. They will bid on your items up to the amount you tell
them to, with the agreement that if they happen to win, they don't pay
for the item but you tell eBay they have and you leave each other
positive feedback.
-- JR
Richard Auras wrote:
Rich, Thanks for pointing out my lack of a link: Here ya go:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260513841563&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1123&autorefresh=true
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260513841563&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1123&autorefresh=true>
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