jpipes wrote:He's in grad school right now
jpipes wrote:No, the strange thing would be, if I was the criminal shill bidding mastermind you claim I am with the huge and long history of "a lot" of cases where I screwed people over, wouldn't there be a lot more bids by him since?? Actually, what I stated makes perfect sense in fact. He stopped bidding on my auctions at the time and since because it was rightly pointed out it was a poor choice to allow him to. What or when or how he was bid since I don't know or care. He's in grad school right now and likely isn't buying or bidding on anything, but regardless it has no bearing on anything, certainly not me selling things here. Oh, and one more thing Sherlock. If I so truly wanted to screw people over by shilling them to no end, and if I continued to want to do so, why wouldn't I post everything I had for sale on ebay and pump all the prices up?? Your suggestions make zero sense and don't add up at all. What you point to is nothing more than a case of poor judgement that occured on a limited basis awhile ago. There is nothing ongoing or overt or mastermind about it.
That was just from your January of 2006 feedback. Should I continue?
Just a guess, based on the handle "uwmpipes".
jpipes wrote:Please do. I have zero to hide. Like I said, he no longer bids on my auctions as it was pointed out it was a poor choice to allow him to. You might be interested to know my father is on ebay as well, he runs a massive stamp store and buys and sells huge collections of stamps. But wait... I bought and sold stamps on ebay too. OH MY GOD. It's all one big shill bidding masterplan to control the sale of $20 items on ebay!!
jpipes wrote:The only problem is there is no "truth" to "my history" so I don't know what you are talking about. If you want to talk about "my history" that would entail providing details about *all* my transactions, good and bad, and looking at them all in total. As is, for some unknown reason you seem obsessed with the *ONE* transaction that was in poor judgement on my behalf and interestingly enough which didn't involve you at all and which no one was actually hurt on. It occured on ebay many months ago and I have already apologized to the members of this forum regarding it. It has zero impact on my actions here or the dozens and dozens of transactions that I have completed through this site.
jpipes wrote: If you have "a lot more" examples of specific cases where I defrauded a buyer or somehow did something to infringe or rip off someone, POST IT. Post each and every example or shut up about it. The fact is you have no such examples, only a few scattered random bids by a family member of mine.
above you "challenged" me to prove that you shilled your auctions more than the two times
jpipes wrote:I said and continue to say that there was one instance of wrong doing on ebay which was rightfully discussed at the time and that there are no instances of people being defrauded or shilled. I stand by that then and now, but have repeatedly stated my brother bidding on my auctions was not in my best interest or anyone elses. If you want to read into my claims, do so. Again, I have nothing to hide and nothing to prevent me from buying and selling here and on ebay.
jpipes wrote:Correct, and you have not proven a single instance. What you *have* shown is a record of a family member bidding on my auctions which was and continues to be an example of a poor choice and bad judgement, and one for which I apologized for in public. But it was not then nor is it now an example of a shill bidding scam being pulled on members of the Acaeum or anyplace else which is what you are claiming.
jpipes wrote:And a good guess it was! We both grew up in Wisconsin (as did my other two brothers, 4 of us total) and we both went to UW Milwaukee.
Proven shilling at tleast 8 times
jpipes wrote:No, you proved no such thing. They were legit bids by a family member and although in poor judgement and since entirely apologized for and never to occur again, you claim I was out to defraud buyers which I most certainly was not. Therefore you have proven nothing. The "aia thing" has nothing to do with ebay as it is an example of someone buying something here and having a question about shipping, nothing more. Your numbers are incorrect and your data doesn't support anything other than a personal attack on me.
Like I said before, just because you insisting that it is so doesn't mean that it is not really the case.
It is quite apparent to myself and I would imagine most others though that we have clearly different views on what honesty is.
Pipes, just so you know, the "family member bidding" story has popped up here a few times before in defense of shill allegations.
jpipes wrote:You mean like standing here in a public forum and pointing out again and again how what you are saying is incorrect and inaccurate and not justified and MORE IMPORTANTLY that I apologized for my actions in the first place (allowing a family member to bid on my auctions) and have since never allowed it to occur again.
jpipes wrote:That seems like the actions of a pretty honest person if you ask me and also of one with nothing to hide since if I did I wouldn't be here dragging this issue out longer and longer for more and more people to read.
The only reason that it hasn't occured again is because you have almost completely stopped selling on Ebay since you were busted. Looking at your feedback out of the 10 or so items that you have sold
Is it? I can't tell you how many times you have told me to bugger off. Once again go read your own posts!