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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 3709985, member: 31620&quot;]In the UK, if you bid in an auction where you are the seller then that is illegal. People have been prosecuted under the &quot;Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008&quot; and it was noted that they could also have been prosecuted under the &quot;Fraud Act 2006&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly if people agree to bid on each other’s items the parties could be prosecuted for the offence of conspiracy to defraud, which makes it a criminal offence for parties to agree to defraud another party.</p><p><br /></p><p>These practices are both described as &quot;shill bidding&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only exception is under the Sale of Goods Act 1979, which allows the seller or their representative (the auctioneer for example) to bid the item up to a pre-set reserve. If no reserve is set then this practice is not permissible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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