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Yup. I was wondering about the shill, myself though. I looked through the sellers completed listings and it seems he "sells" things more than once in the phono department but I don't see anything that reaches out and slaps me as being a shill. I was wondering about the "winner" of this auction last time but I don't see the same scrambled ID and feedback on any of the bidder lists on other items. He may have had a friend bid on it when he didn't like the results.HisMastersVoice wrote:Unfortunately, it is. I have had my winning bid cancelled and my money refunded for no reason on several occasions, in some cases I was the only bidder. I assume the seller did not get what they had hoped for, so they decided to cancel using the item lost or damaged option, and resisted it later. eBay can't make a seller send an item, the only recourse is for the buyer to leave negative feedback.cmshapiro wrote:Getting out of an eBay sale like that isn't just that easy......unless the high bidder is a shill, which I am confident is what happened here.
I think he's trying to pick up what he feels are good deals on what appear to be rare machines to flip. Nothing wrong with that. Problem is, as we all know, rarity doesn't always translate into $$$, so trying to do this with no real knowledge is not the smartest thing to do. On a really rare machine, you often need to cast a net and wait for the right buyer to come along.
In addition, he's likely not aware of how tight the phono/ gramo collector community seems to be. eBay especially is so full of fakes and bee ess that collectors watch things like hawks and they tend to be very, very cautious.
