Did I Get Shilled????

[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.