End this shill bidder.

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Modest_Proposal

·Nov 14, 2015

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=161887037251

 

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flyingout

·Nov 14, 2015

Ouch!

 

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alam

·Nov 14, 2015

let the S Bidder win, it will be listed again...

 

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lillatroll

·Nov 14, 2015

The link does not come up. Hopefully it has been removed.

 

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base615

·Nov 14, 2015

Still works for me. Belongs in the worst redial thread anyway, if anyone engages with him and legit bids I'd be incredibly surprised.

 

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Georgieboy58

·Nov 14, 2015

It's removed!

 

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base615

·Nov 14, 2015

Georgieboy58

It's removed!

Continues to open fine for me

 

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jzzmusician

·Nov 14, 2015

Works for me as well.

Being a novice, how do you tell there is a shill?

 

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Modest_Proposal

·Nov 14, 2015

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.

 

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wsfarrell

·Nov 14, 2015

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.

 

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X350 XJR

·Nov 14, 2015·Vintage Omega Aficionado

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. "

 

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Modest_Proposal

·Nov 14, 2015

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.

 

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alam

·Nov 14, 2015

the shill bidding activity may be questionable, but the shitty state of that dial is not

 

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al128

·Nov 16, 2015

does it come with or without the sharpie? ... I mean you might have to update the dial 20 years down the road ...