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I contacted the seller to tell him that I thought
that he did very well on the car and he replied
"I did well and am happy. I could have done
better but I had some bidder that were not legit. I think by canceling their bid
I hurt myself on the outcome. But I know that everyone should be happy knowing
that I was not the one jacking the bids around. But yes all in all I am very
happy.
Thanks
Pete
David Wallace
58 Fury
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Fwd: [FWDLK] 58 Fury E-BAY
#330201262949
It is my understanding that often the shill bids are
not necessarily meant for the present sale, but are intended for a later sale,
in order to show that the car was bid up to and hence was worth $XX at
auction. Makes for a much higher starting price the second time
around.
Bill Huff
At 1/12/200812:19 PM, Jim Pristelski wrote:
Gary,
I agree.
The bidding history indicates to me that there was a fair amount of shill
bidding going on. In particular, there was one bidder with near zero
feedback who put in about 10 bids with $500 increments between about $13000
and $18000 (I presume the latter number because the bidding never got that
high.), all within a few minutes. Then, about one day before the end of
the auction, after some apparently legitimate bidders entered the bidding, all
of those bids were withdrawn or cancelled. It looked pretty fishy to
me. But then, maybe the shill bidding captured a legitimate bidder.
Jim in not too bad in January weather in
Illinois
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