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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 10:53 am

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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:33 pm

** expired eBay auction **

Rappan Athuk Reloaded, so I doubt this is flying under the radar.

Interesting to note that it is relisted due to a previous non-payer last time? Genuine, or cause for concern shilling??

Rolls a '3'

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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:25 pm

ashmire13 wrote:
** expired eBay auction **

Rappan Athuk Reloaded, so I doubt this is flying under the radar.

Interesting to note that it is relisted due to a previous non-payer last time? Genuine, or cause for concern shilling??

I bid on this the first time round. IIRC there was a retracted bid as well, although I have since deleted the email from eBay, so can't be sure.

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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:48 pm

ashmire13 wrote:
** expired eBay auction **

Rappan Athuk Reloaded, so I doubt this is flying under the radar.

Interesting to note that it is relisted due to a previous non-payer last time? Genuine, or cause for concern shilling??

Just wondering if there was any dicussion re the distribution of the numbered sets... I found # 600 something on the shelf here in Ontario and another #600-and-change in Alaska... is there anything interesting about which sets went where? Are any high or low numbers special somehow?

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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:15 am

** expired eBay auction **

Interesting... and confusing because this is a reputable dealer, from whom I've bought discounted new items before.

:scratch:

Areas of interest/knowledge: Harn, Pendragon, WFRP, Ars Magica, anything BRP based, CoC, Runequest

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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:18 am

TheHistorian wrote:
** expired eBay auction **

Interesting... and confusing because this is a reputable dealer, from whom I've bought discounted new items before.

I suspect this is likely an April Fools joke listing and the joke is being played by the lister on someone at the company (or us other E-Bay members) or if this is a mom and pop store, then perhaps either mom or pop is joking the other.

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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:39 am

Ah, funny... ish.

Areas of interest/knowledge: Harn, Pendragon, WFRP, Ars Magica, anything BRP based, CoC, Runequest

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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:25 am

** expired eBay auction **

Wilderlands of High Fantasy Box Set

PLUS

City State of the Invinsible Overlord

Both in the same listing.

Any bets on where this one will stop?

My guess is just $180...

I would not have listed those two items together.

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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:43 pm

Bracton wrote:Rappan Athuk Reloaded, #220 of 1000.

** expired eBay auction **

I saw this one sell high like the rest of you, but then I noticed it was relisted :?:

I wonder what's going on

** expired eBay auction **

Edit: just saw Ashmire's comment, but it looked liked it was set in Ebay UK for some reason.. :oops:

Here's the original bidding history

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... wauto=true

I see now a 0 feedback dude came in at the end, but the seller opted not to 2nd chance to next highest person?

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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:53 pm

Maybe because the (0) buyer and the seller are the same person?
I wonder if it sells for a lower price this time round whether some other catastrophe will prevent the sale happening, or maybe another mystery shopper will snap it up.

This week I've been mostly eating . . . chicken and wild rice soup.

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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 1:06 pm

misterspock wrote:

I saw this one sell high like the rest of you, but then I noticed it was relisted I wonder what's going on

** expired eBay auction **

Edit: just saw Ashmire's comment, but it looked liked it was set in Ebay UK for some reason..

Here's the original bidding history
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... wauto=true
I see now a 0 feedback dude came in at the end, but the seller opted not to 2nd chance to next highest person?

Could be the second place bidder also feels the price may have been elevated by a Shill Bidder, and if so refuses to buy it.

The 2nd or lower bidder have no obligation to buy it after all.

If the Zero Feedback bidder was a shill, then the shilling started WAY early at just $125-$127.5 and continued all the way to $207.5....

IMO, shilling on ANYTHING, especially items like this one is simply STUPID with a Capital STUPID...

Those things never go cheaply anyway.

It aint worth it (Well, it aint ever worth it IMO... but...)

I have turned down more than one Second Chance offer when I ended in second or a lower spot on items I wanted.

Sometimes due to feelings of the listing having been (perhaps) shilled and sometimes because I am simply no longer interested at the higher price.

A lot more than one actually.

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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 1:51 pm

misterspock wrote:

I saw this one sell high like the rest of you, but then I noticed it was relisted I wonder what's going on

** expired eBay auction **

Edit: just saw Ashmire's comment, but it looked liked it was set in Ebay UK for some reason..

Here's the original bidding history
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... wauto=true
I see now a 0 feedback dude came in at the end, but the seller opted not to 2nd chance to next highest person?

I would also wonder about the bidder with the 34 feedback.

In an auction that doesnt end for days why would you bid twice just to jam the cost of the item up? 1 bid will let you track it, these bids just push it to certain levels.

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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 3:40 pm

I see what you guys are saying, and I think you're right. If I had been the second high bidder, I would've bailed on an offer because of the suspicious nature as well. That 34 bidder s***m could very well be a shill, too, as I dug around for info a little.

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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 3:57 pm

I don't think so, ref the 34 bidder. But the 0 bidder and the cancelled sale is suspicious.

This week I've been mostly eating . . . chicken and wild rice soup.

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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 4:04 pm

misterspock wrote:That 34 bidder s***m could very well be a shill, too, as I dug around for info a little.

I assume you noticed that 100% of s***m's bids were on elwoodslayer's items.

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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 4:57 pm

Exactly...too suspicious

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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:01 pm

No, I missed that, but we're talking about a guy bidding on two items only from one seller in 30 dsays. Hardly suspicious. In order to accumulate 34 feedback from different eBayers, he has to buy or sell. And in order to register as a seller, he has to have 5 feedbacks. So at the very least he has to be an active seller who has bought from four other buyers other than the seller in the past, and have 29 buying customers.

This is a case of eBay's statistics being misleading, and the crappy anonymous system preventing people clariftying the situation.

This week I've been mostly eating . . . chicken and wild rice soup.

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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:17 pm

ExTSR wrote:I assume you noticed that 100% of s***m's bids were on elwoodslayer's items.

Report it!

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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 3:19 am

Can you guys in the States see more than this (34) bidder bidding on more than two auctions from this one seller? In the UK we only see bidding on two auctions.

This week I've been mostly eating . . . chicken and wild rice soup.

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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 1:20 pm

mbassoc2003 wrote:Can you guys in the States see more than this (34) bidder bidding on more than two auctions from this one seller? In the UK we only see bidding on two auctions.

I only saw the bidding on two auctions, both with the same seller in the past 30 days and obviously on both the Reloaded auctions.

here's the link of the profile page we were looking at

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... e_ViewLink

edit: I can't seem to get the link above to work quite right in the post, so I stuck it in quotes

edit: I guess that link won't work unless you're in the auction bidding history and click on the specific anonymous bidder. Oh well.

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