The best way to check is to do a bidder's search on the people who drove the price up. If they are frequently bidding on your seller's items, but usually always losing, then you know it's a shill (sometimes they win, you know).
-Mike -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 12:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Phono-L] I smell a rat..................... I have a very clean VV-IX that I was considering to put on Ebay. Usually, these machines demand $350.00 to $400.00(if you're lucky). I happened to run across this one during it's early stage of bidding. I was surprised by the rather high bidding, so I added it to my watch page to see where it would go. I nearly stroked out at the final price! I contacted the next two highest bidders several days later(yeah, I know, an Ebay no-no) to inquire as to whether they were interested in a machine in similar condition for their top bid. (c'mon, well all do it, or we aren't good capitalists!) Anyway, neither responded, and now it's over a month and neither buyer nor seller has given feedback. Does anyone here feel this is a prime example of "shill bidding?" I dunno, but this stinks in my opinion. Bill http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6587005134&rd=1&sspagenam e=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list [email protected] Phono-L Archive http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/
