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Have you ever decided not to bid on a cel auction you liked because of the seller's tactics? (Sun Mar 17 22:43:05 2002 )
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An auction for a rare cel from a show I loved 
just ended this afternoon.  And even though I 
could have blown away the official final bid if I 
wanted to, I didn't.

In the end, it was just that a few of the tactics 
that seller was using to drive up the price of 
her auction really irritated me and left a bad 
taste in my mouth.  So even if I did win the cel 
(which like I mentioned, was easy to do because I 
could have bidded A LOT more), I don't think I 
would have enjoyed the cel at all due to the 
circumstances it was being sold.

First, I know exactly where the that cel was 
originally purchased, and the seller set her 
reserve price quite a bit higher than what it was 
originally worth.  That might not be so uncommon, 
but that she was claiming in the auction that the 
reserve price was "low" just made me laugh.

Then, looking at the bid history, it really does 
look like a friend of hers was constantly topping 
other bidders throughout the week but not on the 
final day, in what seemed like an obvious effort 
to drive up the price of the auction.  I've heard 
the term shill bidding applied to this kind of 
tactic before, but I'm not that familiar with it.

I don't know, but if the seller wanted to make a 
pretty profit of a cel like that, they would have 
gotten one from me if they were straight and 
honest with their auction.



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