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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2599925, member: 19463&quot;]There was a time when eBay openly listed the high bidder&#039;s handle and sellers lost money because my friends laid off my lots.&nbsp; Of course, it worked both ways; some people would bid on lots &#039;flagged&#039; by someone they knew would not have bid on that lot if they did not know it was worth more than that.&nbsp; I am a little surprised so many dealers still publish names.&nbsp; I have backed off lots because I knew the leader.&nbsp; I once really upset a friend who did not bid on a lot I was leading on because I did not defend the bid when I was outbid and he would have paid more than the eventual winner did.&nbsp; Auctions are a complex thing.&nbsp; In person you really do not know if the hand that goes up is the bidder or an agent hired to represent him.&nbsp; Online, I have been told that a friend was avoiding a lot because I had bid on it but the dsmith who was bidding was a different person.&nbsp;&nbsp; To me the worst thing was when a dealer at as show showed me a coin he bought at an auction because he knew I would want it and it was going cheap by his definition.&nbsp; I was the underbidder and let him keep the coin.&nbsp; Some we win....some get rained out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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