[meteorite-list] Another crazy bidder on ebay

From: Don Merchant <dmerchan_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 17:44:32 -0500
Message-ID: <001101cbaace$a0406230$6401a8c0_at_donaldmerchant>

The fact that one individual bidder has 0 feedback and that many bids on one
item in that span of time, leads me to feel that maybe a form of bid rigging
is taken place. At least that's what would catch my eye and put my guard up.
Now that the price is where the seller wants it, it would not surprise me
that Mr. 0 feedback will not bid again. If I was the high bidder I would
retract my bid this way Mr. 0 would be high bidder! I could be wrong on all
this but I have seen this game before on several occasions.
Here is a link to a news source in which an eBay bidder was arrested and
charged with bidding on his own auctions because he said they were lower
then expected...he even admits creating another account with name to do this
bidding rigging!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267410/Ebay-seller-faces-fine-bidding-items-raise-prices.html

Sincerely
Don Merchant
IMCA #0960
Founder-Cosmic Treasures Celestial Wonders
http://www.ctreasurescwonders.com/index.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Fujihara" <fujmon at mac.com>
To: "MeteorList" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 12:46 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Another crazy bidder on ebay


> http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=170585023324
>
> current bid is at $180 for a 2.3g complete oriented Bassikounou H5
> chondrite
>
> granted Geoff's offering is a pristine example of flight orientation of an
> OC, but would anybody in their right mind bid $79/g? FWIW, this 'new' guy
> has 0 feedback.
>
> Gary Fujihara
> Big Kahuna Meteorites (IMCA#1693)
> 105 Puhili Place, Hilo, Hawai'i 96720
> http://bigkahuna-meteorites.com/
> http://shop.ebay.com/fujmon/m.html
> (808) 640-9161
>
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Received on Sun 02 Jan 2011 05:44:32 PM PST