Is this legit?

Hello,

$723.00 and climbing. Like I said, the seller is likely smiling cheek to cheek. Will be interesting to see what this ends at.

Cheers,
Eli:beer:
 
The card is a hair over $1200 now but I am suspicious of the high bidder (private feedback) and whether the auction is being shilled.
 
forsberg21 said:
The card is a hair over $1200 now but I am suspicious of the high bidder (private feedback) and whether the auction is being shilled.
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Without the private feedback bidder, the card was still bid up to over $800. I think any seller would be thrilled with that price and wouldn't want to risk the sale. The ultimate winner of the card found the maximum bid of the guy with private feedback the day before the auction ended then waited until 6 minutes before the auction ended to finally top that bid. I would think a shill bidder would have gotten nervous and retracted their bid.
 
Wow ended at +$1200 for a 22 year old 3-point player and with a print-run higher than /10, now that's every ebay seller's ultimate dream!

Really hope that the seller gets every $ paid in the end.....but you never know with ebay/paypal in nowadays....
 
Frendo said:
Wow ended at +$1200 for a 22 year old 3-point player and with a print-run higher than /10, now that's every ebay seller's ultimate dream!

Really hope that the seller gets every $ paid in the end.....but you never know with ebay/paypal in nowadays....
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As mentioned earlier in the thread, it's a 1/1.
 
chihawk19 said:
The ultimate winner of the card found the maximum bid of the guy with private feedback the day before the auction ended then waited until 6 minutes before the auction ended to finally top that bid. I would think a shill bidder would have gotten nervous and retracted their bid.
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Maybe I'm not familiar with eBay strategies, but looking at the auction history, how did the eventual winner realize he had found the private feedback buyer's max bid? He raised his bid from $1,050.85 to $1200, just $.05 cents under the other's max bid.
 
TADontAsk said:
Maybe I'm not familiar with eBay strategies, but looking at the auction history, how did the eventual winner realize he had found the private feedback buyer's max bid? He raised his bid from $1,050.85 to $1200, just $.05 cents under the other's max bid.
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How he found it was a fluke. But at that level, the minimum bid increment is well over $.05, it's probably at least $2.50. So when you submit a bid, if the highest bidder is winning with a bid of less than the minimum bid increment, you know that is their max bid. That is how peck bidders (bidders who bid multiple times, in small bid increments) and shill bidders determine what a high bidders maximum bid is.
 
I believe the minimum bid increment was $25 yesterday. In unrelated news, the winner went second-best in the auctions for both Sprong and Hellebuyck, so he probably hit it on all cylinders. But still... it takes two to tango. Insane.
 
Netorack said:
I believe the minimum bid increment was $25 yesterday. In unrelated news, the winner went second-best in the auctions for both Sprong and Hellebuyck, so he probably hit it on all cylinders. But still... it takes two to tango. Insane.
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I've been tracking the winner's bidding habits since he seems to be collecting the cards I have been collecting in the past. He seems to increase his bids whenever outbid or when his max bid is getting close to being reached. For Sprong and Hellebucyk, there was mostly late bidding going on which prevented the auctions from finishing too high (relatively). The Faksa had early and often bidding from several other bidders, and the winning bidder kept on moving his bid up with each subsequent outbid.
 

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