Did I Get Shilled????

[Dead-Ball-Hitter]

Darren, looks like you got Power Played, possibly Brute Force Spatula’d, and/or Compu-sniped my friend. Yup, in other words, you may have been victimized by an auto-bidding program. But at least you won!

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by Dead-Ball-Hitter

Darren, looks like you got Power Played, possibly Brute Force Spatula’d, and/or Compu-sniped my friend. Yup, in other words, you may have been victimized by an auto-bidding program. But at least you won!

If that's the case, wouldn't it have to come from the seller's shilling ally? I mean, what would be the point of some rando pushing my price to the max down to the penny? It makes no sense.

[Harliduck]

I don't know about the shilling aspect...but I have won literally thousands of cards on ebay, have sniped and have been sniped...and for the first time ever while bidding on a 66 High the other night, I had the same thing..."Determining the Winner"...then moments later I had won. I was the sniper like you and won with my sniping bid and only saw that amount...so a little different than yours...but I have never seen the "Determining the Winner" page before...that was weird...

[D. Bergin]

You got sniped, you didn’t get shilled.

[JollyElm]

I snipe all the time (and did so here), but that exact amount is just bizarre. It made the final price my absolute maximum. Not a penny more, not a penny less, the exact number. Which would've been normal at a full dollar amount or something like that, but a bid of $46.89 to force me exactly to my $47.88 max? Fishy.

Thanks for the input, everyone. Something seems very wrong to me, but lacking proof, there's not much I can do, so I'll move on...

[BobC]

Darren, As weird as the bid may have seemed, since this was on Ebay and two last second type snipe bids, how would the seller, or anyone else, have been able to tell what your snipe max amount was? If someone was shilling you, they somehow had to have access to your snipe account to know what your max bid amount was, because there wouldn't have been enough time left in the auction for them to make more than a single snipe bid at the end themselves. That is the whole point of using a snipe service, it doesn't allow time for someone to shill you and run your bids up. Chalk it up to a weird coincidence. The old saying still holds, truth is very often stranger than fiction.