What makes anyone think they should get a cel
for
less than it's going rate? Why should they be
more entitled or deserving of it, so much so that
they get to pay less than someone else?
This is what supply and demand is all about, this
is basic economics.
And where does shilling play a part in economics?
Finally, no one out there can be sure the
price
of any cel a schiller bid on wouldn't have gotten
that high had the schiller not bid. There have
been a lot of auctions that when I go to bid are
just above my max, so I don't bid at all.
It's true that no one can predict the final price
of the auction had the shiller bid or not.
However, I think people get upset and angry at
shill bidding mostly because it is an underhanded
way to inflate the final sale price. The winner
had to pay more not because the next
highest bidder had a legitimate desire for the
item, but because the shiller inflated the price.
Wouldn't you be upset that for every auction you
participiated and won you ended up paying an
extra five, ten, twenty, or even more dollars to
an unscrupulous seller who used shill bidding to
pocket more of your hard earned money than the
seller should have?
---Trebuchet |