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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;toddestan, post: 204701, member: 6366&quot;]It used to be easier, when you could see the identities of of the bidders.&nbsp; Things to check included how often that bidder bid on that seller&#039;s auctions, how often they won, whether they had left each other feedback, as well as if they were located near each other (same city/state).&nbsp; Back when you could get their email address, that also could give you some clues, like if they were both on some small ISP, or you could try searching for that email, and see if you could get the names involved and see if they had the same last name.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nowadays it&#039;s harder with eBay&#039;s bidder protection system, though Bidder 5 in this case may of the more &quot;casual&quot;, less blatant type of shilling, where a seller asks a friend with their own eBay account to throw in a bid or two on some of of their auctions (this is opposed to the more blatant shilling accounts that have ficticious info and are only used only to bid up their own auctions).&nbsp; The $299.97 bid is somewhat suspect, as the point of most shillers is to only push the price up, and not win, hence a bid that is a few cents less than a nice round number that a legit bidder is more likely to bid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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