Have I been shilled?

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Posted By: Bob

Last week I bid on a live auction on ebay. There were 5 M116 Sporting Life cards and I bid on the one I needed. I won it for my maximum bid of $70.00 (plus $12.00 vigorish and $8.00 s&h). The card is one of the truly tough commons and I have never seen it offered before anywhere (Rowan). Well, a live bidder kept running me up to my max. I was ok with winning it at my max as I figured it was one of those things. Then I noticed that a live bidder had won the other 4 M116s. Ok, I thought, no problem, I have seen live bidders prevail all the time, in fact in this auction I only remember 2 lots (mine and another guy's) that went to an internet bidder over a live bidder.
Well, today I see the same seller offering those 4 M116s which were supposedly hammered down to a live bidder. This makes me very suspicious. All 4? My shill detector started vibrating. Has anyone else bid in this guy's live auctions before and had similar things happen?
http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6530158251&category=28270
This is one of the 4 cards which "sold" last week but he has reoffered. I wonder...

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Posted By: J Levine

Ask them to investigate...his feedback does not inspire confidence either...this happened to me the first time I bid on a live auction on ebay...shill bidder bid up some t-205s and they were on ebay the next week. When I contacted the seller, he said the buyer did not pay, I asked to pay my high bid (underbidder w/ no reserve)...he refused...I filed a report with ebay and he was kicked off but live ebay auctions often worry me.

-Joshua

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Posted By: dennis

looks like some others have had problems too.... http://www.toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=avr&Dirn=Received+by

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Posted By: ted

I'm impressed to see someone else knows of toolhaus!

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Posted By: jay behrens

The board has been aware of it for a few years now. I make use of it all the time. An indispensible tool since eBay makes it hard to check out the neg feedback on it's PowerSeller/scammers

Jay

I like to sit outside drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home I would be arrested, so I go to baseball games and fit right in.

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Posted By: Bob

Wow, he really has a bad track record, wish I had known that before I bid. I did write him an email today to ask him to explain to me why the winning live bidder in his auction didn't end up with the cards (on the other 4) and could he see if the guy who kept bumping my bid up to the max bid was the same guy. I am not holding my breath, though. Hopefully I will receive my card and then can just go on. The whole thing is tres bizarre.

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Posted By: BcD

E-bay will never toss him! period~