Don't get me wrong, I love that I finally won a nice T206 Hal Chase Trophy SGC 60 for what I believe to be a very good price last night - $170.50. But check this out....
05/25/2014
Same card sold for $252.00 to "O***B (945)"
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...p2047675.l2565
Last night, the same dude "O***B (945)" bid $135 for the same card I just won last night:
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...p2047675.l2565
And here's a kicker -- in the first auction in May, "O***B (945)" also started his bidding activity with a $135 bid.
The easy money is on this being a shill. Frankly, I'd love to hear plausible alternative explanations. But, if it is indeed a shill, it certainly isn't a very good job. He left bids of $216.55 and $260 on the table from last time.
Not sure there is anything formal to be done about this, but I would certainly take final prices seen in Probstein123 auctions with a grain of salt. And, I would adjust my final bids accordingly, as I did successfully in this case.
Oh, and my name is P.au1 M.if5u.d.