Yep, and you can note that the Canadian auction attempted to charge $25 shipping. Likewise the UK auction, though that was a much higher $32. You might note that I used the account to bid on foreign items and questionable sellers, having been burned in the feedback arena for questioning shipping. It appears to me that you are whining about items that you were outbid on. Feel free to contact the sellers and pay the "handling" charges. I'm sure they still have the items. I don't recall eBay having a policy about multiple accounts, although they don't allow shill bidding. Do some more detective work and you will discover no shill bidding.
Your argument is childish. Did you even note that I DID pay for the Aussie lot, since the shipping was agreeable and there were no "eBay", "Paypal" and "handling" charges?
No one complains about you paying stupid amounts of cash for duplicates of what you already have. If I decide to protect my main eBay account by using a second account for what I deem are questionable auctions, that is my right. I could argue that you jack up the prices of items you already have, thereby costing us more money.
Or is this about the Dwarven Glory?.....................

As a member of the ebay community (loud laugh on that one) I have a number of problems with how Frank handled this. Frank, you state that the Canadian auction was trying to charge $25 for shipping and the English auction was $32. How could they try to pull that one off when each of the auctions states a predetermined amount for the shipping, $3 for the Canadian and and £3 for the UK. If they actually did try to take you to the cleaners with the shipping then you should leave feedback accordingly.

So how about we take a step back and look at this entire situation and at any evidence that may either support or call into question any of Frank's statements that he is only using this account to bid on items of foreign/questionable sellers.

1. Ebay has record of Magadunar bidding on 6 auctions since the middle of October. Of these, 3 are foreign and 3 are from the US. None of the three US sellers had any negatives and he even bought from one of them before with the eyeamgawd account. None of the three foreign auctions had any history of negative feedback (one guy had 1 neg out of 3000+ feedbacks).

2. the Magadunar account has left feedback for 1 person (same person for two different auctions that ended the same day). The complaint that resulted in the negative feedback was high shipping charges. The seller states a shipping price of $2.49 on one of the auctions but gives no quote for the second auction. It would be my guess that Frank expected a reasonable shipping quote, but in both auctions he was the only person and the seller may have tried to squeeze him by charging a lot for the second item or refusing to combine shipping. The seller has 97% positive feedback (24 unique negatives) which is not a very good rating.

Therefore, I would conclude that:

1. Frank does use his Magadunar account for foreign and problem accounts.  Why he used it on the non-problem US auctions is a mystery...but one of the US auctions was a $300 reserve so I can understand that one. He could have just been logged in with it at the time.

2. There is no evidence that he is just using the account to jack up the price on people or one particular person. There just is not enough of a history to draw that conclusion...and Burnie does bid on a lot so there is certainly not a dearth of opportunity.

3. Burnie never said anything about shill bidding and what he is accusing Frank of is not shill bidding (shill bidding requires collusion between the seller and the shill/bidder).

Burnie, you know I would be the last person to come to Frank's defense if he did something that was wrong. I have always supported you against the screaming hordes of whiners that have posted complaints about your willingness to win an auction. I have to say that there just is not enough evidence to support your claim about Frank trying to jack up your auction prices.

-PD

Ah, so THAT'S what this is about. You think I'm jacking up your auction prices.
Well, two things pertain here:

1. Even if that was what I was doing, you jack up the price of EVERY decent item. Everyone seems to be in agreement about that.

2. Don't bid so high and you won't have to worry about paying so much.

If this is a case of sour grapes, you can either relax and accept the fact that I am protecting my account against unscrupulous eBayers, or sit up at night biting your nails, wondering if you're going to be outbid on the hundreds of items you buy every month. I care not either way. By your own admission you got the item anyways, after I had been the one to do the e-mail battle with sellers who think I am ignorant of eBay policies and currency conversion rates. So be content to own your prrreccioussss item (gollum gollum). I think you take this hobby way too seriously.

Frank, I imagine the exchange rate comment is directed at the UK auction. Did the seller try to exceed the 1.55 exchange rate he has posted on the auction page. It is really not that bad of a rate...it is the excessive ones that I have a problem with. I suppose my question for such UK sellers would be: "Paypal already has an exchange rate so why are you as sellers setting your own?" Oh, wait, that's right, to pad their profits! nevermind.

-PD

I still think you have a crush on me, Ralphie. You seem to get very excited whenever I am the subject of attention. Down, boy. Heel.

BTW, I lucked out because he left me feedback first. Kind of relates to the earlier debate..........

Yep, and like I said in the earlier post (Did you read it? CAN you read?), foreign AND questionable auctions. I e-mailed the seller about what the reserve was and got a fairly nasty reply, therefore I didnt feel it wise to use my regular account. My rule of thumb is going to be anything that should go over $100. And yes, if they went for $1,000 each and I won I'd have gladly paid for them.
This is my last post about this. I see no reason to defend my actions, nor any reason to add fuel to the Whiny Fire. Grow up. If you want to spend endless hours researching Big Bad Frank the Outlaw's auctions, be my guest, but how about PMing me or each other and avoiding cluttering up the Acaeum with yet another bashing thread. It's childish.

Ralf, I did say that there is not enough history to make any claims against Frank and my statement was due to the fact that ebay only had about 3 weeks of bidding history in its records. I was going to type in my exposition that I do remember seeing the Magadunar account name as bidding in a number of auctions. But since I had no evidence to put forth of such I was only going to stick with the facts at hand.

But let's look at the two pieces of evidence you have brought. Both of these auctions had a reserve and it appears to me that Frank created the account just to test what that reserve might be. The problem is the Outbid-TBax-theory does not work, he actually outbid T-Bax once but it was still below the reserve. Frank even states in the C1/C2 thread in this forum that the reserve is, as he suspected, $1000. So it is not as to whether had Frank outbid T-Bax would he pay, it is: Had Frank found a reserve of $950 and gone over with his $955 bid, would he pay. I think that is the question. Malcolm did say that there was something slightly odd going on...and there you have it. I think you can draw your own conclusions.

-PD

Why do you sell them as a private auction where no bidder IDs can be seen?