Warning Potentially Shilled Auction Stars Wars #1 35 cent variant

[comix4fun]

Hello Everyone,

 

I wanted to bring this book to everyone's attention.

 

Star Wars #1 35 Cent Variant

 

The seller is a new forum member (screen name: TheChick) and listed a link to the auction in the Dealers Ebay sales thread section.

 

One forum member questioned the new member for references because the new member/ebay seller had some questionable negative feedback recently.

 

Then I noticed that one of the bidders had more than 50% of his bids with this seller and had recently withdrawn 4 bids, and that those were two potential signs that someone was running the auction price up without the intent to follow through if they won.

 

When I called this potential thrill bid/shill bid to the original poster's attention, they responded by closing the thread and deleting the links to the auction item and their explanation of the feedback issue.

 

I would not have linked the bidding to a potential problem with the seller until I saw the deletion of the thread and the link to the auction item. To me, in my opinion, that is a highly questionable action to take when a simple explanation would have clarified what was happening.

 

At this point I think the rest of the forum needs to take heed and take notice as to what has occurred if they were planning on bidding.

[thehumantorch]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

To be fair, bidder d***r(5) has only bid on two items (that weren't withdrawn) in the last 30 days and one was from this seller so I'm not sure the 50% number is meaningful. I would love to know which sellers d***r(5) bid on and retracted from.

[comix4fun]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

To be fair, bidder d***r(5) has only bid on two items (that weren't withdrawn) in the last 30 days and one was from this seller so I'm not sure the 50% number is meaningful. I would love to know which sellers d***r(5) bid on and retracted from.

 

 

True, and I would have thought the number of bids less than conclusive as well had the original poster not immediately deleted the posts in the thread.

 

4 bid retractions is a huge amount for someone with 5 total feedback though.

[thehumantorch]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

To be fair, bidder d***r(5) has only bid on two items (that weren't withdrawn) in the last 30 days and one was from this seller so I'm not sure the 50% number is meaningful. I would love to know which sellers d***r(5) bid on and retracted from.

 

 

True, and I would have thought the number of bids less than conclusive as well had the original poster not immediately deleted the posts in the thread.

 

4 bid retractions is a huge amount for someone with 5 total feedback though.

 

The deletion seems suspicious.

 

If you could prove that d***r withdrew from TheChick's ebay auctions that would be gold.

[comix4fun]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

To be fair, bidder d***r(5) has only bid on two items (that weren't withdrawn) in the last 30 days and one was from this seller so I'm not sure the 50% number is meaningful. I would love to know which sellers d***r(5) bid on and retracted from.

 

 

True, and I would have thought the number of bids less than conclusive as well had the original poster not immediately deleted the posts in the thread.

 

4 bid retractions is a huge amount for someone with 5 total feedback though.

 

The deletion seems suspicious.

 

If you could prove that d***r withdrew from TheChick's ebay auctions that would be gold.

 

I agree.

 

The new Ebay system makes that pretty tough to do.

 

So that's why I used "potentially" and "allegedly", ebay blocks access to most of the information what would prevent shilling from happening.