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January 27th 05, 12:12 PM

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 02:08:22 UTC, wrote:

Shilling is STEALING. It's taking money right out of your pocket for
the sole benefit of the seller. It's also illegal in most states and
auctioneers can lose their licenses over this.

You may be happy paying more for something than you have to but I
prefer not to deal with someone who is demonstrably dishonest. Who
knows how *else* they might screw you?

73 John W3JN

What are you referring to?????

I'm a shill's nightmare. Many auctions that I've been in have
run-away, way above my max. Strangely, the prices of similar items
eventually settle down to more reasonable levels.

I can wait.

I'm here suggesting to folk that they set their max and stick to it.
One of the shill's tricks is to run up the price and hope that you
say, "ah, I can still get it."

Well no. If it's a dollar above my limit, it's above my limit. In
the near future, I'll probably have a chance to get one for even
less.

Shill, you can have it. I'll wait and get a better one for even
less.