This watch is being shill bid up the . Please report it and give a word to the seller, if you would. http://www.ebay.com/itm/CLASSIC-195...028acc5&pid=100034&rk=1&rkt=8&sd=161887037251Purchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network
Still works for me. Belongs in the worst redial thread anyway, if anyone engages with him and legit bids I'd be incredibly surprised.
The top bid dropped from over $5,000 to just over $2,000. Still, the shill bidder is the top bidder. I suppose he's trying to make it seems less obnoxious.
I still believe shill bidding is over-diagnosed here. The top bidder, d***m, has bid on watches from 29 different sellers in the last 30 days. The vast majority are single bids. They look like multiple bids in the bidding history because (for example) he'll bid $3,000 on a watch, someone else will bid $1,200 which will auto-increment his bid to $1,300, someone else will bid $1,500 which will auto-increment his bid to $1,600, etc. etc. Shilling is much more likely if we see in the history that a particular bidder has bid on many different items from the same seller in the last 30 days.
I don't think the seller is bright enough to shill bid. From his description: "Dial: Original dial with applied gold hour hands, black Roman numeral hour markers. Natural patina. "
What you guys might not realize is that the watch was yesterday at over $5,000. After I posted this thread, the watch dropped to the amount you see now. Can you explain that reasonably, without inserting shill bidding? It's the most logical explanation.
does it come with or without the sharpie? ... I mean you might have to update the dial 20 years down the road ...