Reply to "50 cent starting price, foolish or worth the risk?"

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From what I have heard (and this does not represent every ebayer that lists at minimum value and gets a good price) the sellers who list at 99c and then get massive amounts of cash are usually shill bidding

This is actually a myth (if this were true, I'd have been kicked off years ago

I mentioned in another post that I sold a shirt for $97, starting bid price was .99)...of course shilling DOES go on, but not nearly as frequently as people think. What makes it worse is the masked identity of the bidders, it's really hard to tell now. But even a suspicion should be reported and let Ebay figure it out.

7/8/0811:56 PM

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