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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kryptonitecomic, post: 1368107, member: 26784&quot;]bingo....he is right. It does happen but not to the extent that everyone thinks. I sell a lot on Ebay....usually anywhere from 40 to 60 auctions per week and while nobody has to believe me...I do not shill bid my auctions and I don&#039;t have family members either. If you do things right, good images, fair shipping and return policies you build up a good reputation and your coins can sell for fair to strong prices. Yes I lose money on some coins but I make money on plenty of others and for me it&#039;s not worth the risk to make a few extra bucks playing games. If I can&#039;t buy coins and resell them for a profit then I have no business being a dealer as I either don&#039;t have an eye for what my customers like or I don&#039;t have a clue what the market will bare so I over paid. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t tell you how many time a winning bidders has had zero feedback and I get a nasty note from an underbidder accusing me of shill bidding??? <span style="color: #ff0000">edited</span> I can&#039;t stop anyone from bidding, ebay has made sure of that and I cringe myself when they win simply becuase of perceptions and the chances being higher that they won&#039;t pay. I have also had plenty of folks bid up a coin and then cancel there bids which again makes folks think something funny is going on, but other than blocking those folks from bidding in the future there is nothing a seller can do and ebay allows bid cancellations which they should not. I have cancelled auctions and had to relist them do to bidder shananagins and it always negatively reflects on the seller when I had&nbsp; nothing to do with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>So in a nutshell...take the advice given and decide what your willing to pay for an item and folks will either shill or they won&#039;t but realisticly you won&#039;t know if it&#039;s going on or not in 98% of cases, it&#039;s just folks assuming the worst since you can get some good deals on Ebay and if you have to pay fair market value then something had to be shady right?&nbsp; lol[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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