Talk about questionable bidding

alohaet

Check this out.

Tom Sanders card

I bid on this card and was outbid, way out bid. Checkout the bidders on this and you make a judgement if there is something a little shady here.

Ed

craig19

this is a $50 card....what is going on???? Am i missing something? Maybe if i needed it for a set it could be a $100 card, but $300 and still going? Is he a deciple of Colonel Sanders?

etown99girl

Looks like shilling to me.

Private feedback, only one feedback, and bidding on same seller's items.

kowngambler(private)

storm888

Anything is possible on scambay, but sometimes a crazy/stupid
buyer will run stuff up, without the seller being a part of the scam.

I know that DSL is one of the least favs to some folks on this board,
but I have bought stuff really cheap from them (way below SMR) and
nobody has ever shilled me. Most of the time, I was the only bidder.

Also, sometimes a bidder will just try to mess up an auction, with no plans
to pay if he/she wins.

Maybe scambay should get rid of the "private designation" on items below
a certain dollar value. Maybe any item below $1K or $2K should have to
be transparent. If a "private fb" buyer wanted to bid, he would have to
temporarily remove the mask. (Any member can go public/private at the
whack of a few keystrokes.)

My guess is that DSL is probably not involved in stuff that could/would get
them tossed. Only a guess, and I might be mistaken.

storm

iamthegreatcornholio

I seriously doubt DSL would shill.

They usually start items with an opening bid that they're comfortable with. In this case, it was only $39.99 so I'm sure they're happy with the price.

My guess is that someone on the registry has a second ID to bid on select tough cards. Either that, or they are trying to make someone else pay more, but I doubt it's DSL's doing.

jad22

Actually this is not a 50 dollar card. There might be schilling but this card is hard to find in an 8. Or at least it was a few months back.

onlyanumber

He ran that buyer up on a Walt Frazier rookie as well to $303 and won an uncut sheet from toppsvault for $3050

poppie

I agree with iamthegreatcornholio. DSL has always been first class to deal with. I wish that they took Paypal, other than that... Perfect !

montanafan

for what it's worth, i have had many dealings with DSL and found them to be completely professional and severely doubt that they would allow any shill bidding... you don't get to that level of ebay feedback and risk it with that nonsense, and i know they would not..

packCollector

are you serious? they list 2,000 cards a week all with bids at what they feel is reasonable. do you think they singles out 1 300 dollar card to shill when there volume and the fact that they sell 100`s of low pops a week that go for premiums. the witch hunt is on again

montanafan

also, if they were going to shill bid i would hope they would be smart enough not to do it in small, easily detectable increments like that.. the feedback score and bidding practices all point to an ebay nooblet with too much money to blow or maybe something shady by the buyer, but not the seller.

jad22

besides it is Tom Sanders. A great player who belongs in the hall of fame.

Seraph

It could be a sour underbidder that tried to backdoor (get an auction to close early) on another item that DSL had up for auction. He's probably trying to win any or all of the items and then not pay. I hate these kinds of losers.

aro13

Apparently the high bidder was willing to pay more. I paid $6.50 for my PSA 7 Sanders that looks like an 8.

GOODLIEU

I agree with Seraph. I have dealt with DSL many times and there is no way in my opinion they are involved in any price fixing on their auctions. This appears to be a dummy account set up to mess with DSL auctions for some reason. I would keep an eye on this auction and the bidder to see what happens after the auction closes. My guess is this auction will end up being relisted.