Ebay calls that shilling, and if they catch sellers at it they bounce
them.
phony bidding isn't too hard to detect
SETH wrote:
> In a message dated 1/14/01 11:34:53 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > << What I hate are people who have friends who bid up the price.
> I work with
> > a
> > guy who bragged about the practice. >>
> >
> > One person just bid and won a lens worth $85 at the most but paid
> $142.50 for
> > it, probably a victim of the practice.
>
> W.C. Fields said that "you can't cheat an honest man". It could be
> appiled to ebay as "you can't overcharge a sensible man". If the
> lens was worth $85 and this person bid $142.50, he only has himself
> to blame.
>
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