D Peter Maus wrote:

...

In one of the private Grundig radio fora I belonged to a few years
ago, it was routine for members to bid up another members auction. They
even bragged about doing it before the auction closed.

The rationale as explained was that bidders enter the contest with a
maximum bid. If that's the price the bidder was willing to pay anyway,
and a few shills bid up to near that figure, what's the harm?

I don't know what the repercussions may have been, I resigned the
group. But the group itself didn't last very long.





Yep. Always has been a case of "buyer beware."

If they can't learn to leave Ebay alone, let 'em pay top dollar. It's
been that way for awhile ...

Regards,
JS