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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;StevePM, post: 4998505, member: 114739&quot;]This does sound suspicious Ian - although I suspect if there is any foul play going on here it will be extremely difficult to prove. I am not an expert in the workings of online auctions, but have looked into this a little after an unusually long streak of always winning lots at my maximum pre-bid with a particular auction house. In the end though I concluded it was just a coincidence. At the time I searched on this forum for similar topics and here are a couple of threads from the past year or so where people have discussed somewhat similar situations:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/getting-tired-of-auction-houses.353645/page-2#post-4008361" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/getting-tired-of-auction-houses.353645/page-2#post-4008361">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/getting-tired-of-auction-houses.353645/page-2#post-4008361</a></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/cng-112-mr-shill-revealed.346679/page-2#post-3707989" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/cng-112-mr-shill-revealed.346679/page-2#post-3707989">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/cng-112-mr-shill-revealed.346679/page-2#post-3707989</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I hope these links to specific posts work</p><p><br /></p><p>I am sharing these links because I have looked into this before, but do not wish to support or deny the information given - merely just share it with you. It is of course tempting in a situation like this to imagine we have been hard done by. On the other hand, I would assume that in the long term most auction houses have much more to lose than gain by using these practices. For what it&#039;s worth, while I do trust auction houses, I now take the same approach as you and will only bid on auctions live and not place pre-bids. That means I miss a lot of coins that sell when I am working but it gives me peace of mind that I&#039;m in control of administering my own max bid.</p><p><br /></p><p>If only you could contact the underbidder and sell it to them for 170 and just take the loss of 10 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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