Another shill? You tell me.

[D. Bergin]

Has anybody contacted the seller to find out if the bidder is also a consignor of the items he is bidding on?

I don't think I recall ever saying it was a valid excuse to ignore a consignor shilling your auctions, because a particular seller is too big. I think I alluded that because the seller has such a large number of items up for auction at any given time, It's very possible a newbie never left that sellers page to bid elsewhere. Maybe because of budget, time, trust issues, familiarity or any number of other issues.

I do have a hard time believing nobody on here has picked one particular auction or seller to buy from in a one month period and not bid anywhere else. Must be a lot of deeeep pockets.

That's assuming this guy hasn't bought anywhere else. That is just one seller on Ebay he is following. Ebay is only one venue that happens to have lots of different sellers.

I've funneled lots of buyers to Ebay through my two retail websites, who were not previously Ebay bidders. It probably hurt me in the long run, but a lot of them started bidding on MY auctions first, because they were familiar with me, or my material.

I don't have a horse in the race, and I don't know if this seller is a serial shiller, he may very well be. If he is you should be making very loud noises about it and getting his attention.

I know I'm just small fry, but I would be very upset if somebody publicly accused ME of shilling. It's a serious accusation but the word seems to be thrown around at the slightest hint of a particular bidder not fitting into whatever a persons pre-conceived notions of what a bidders psychology should be.