Alright, I'll be the elephant in the room here. The guy has only bid on 5 items in the last month........he has zero bid retractions in the last 6 months.
Is the 100% figure (on 5 items) the only evidence you have that this guy is an actual shill?
Is there a prior history of Probstein selling these exact same cards, that somebody else might have won, prior to your winning them?
Could it actually be that he saw a card from a set he was looking for and threw in his obligatory few bids for the month?
.....another possibility, and I've heard of several OCD type collectors who do this. He may have already had the card, but saw it was going for a low price and raised the ceiling on them, figuring he was protecting the market. If he wins, no biggy, it's a card he likes anyways.......if he loses, no biggy, he thinks he kept the market from crashing on a card he likes.
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