Post #41311 by SugarCaddyDaddy on Tue, Jul 1, 2003 3:35 PM

Since I am often suspicious of Shag signed items (in reality, ANY signed items) for sale on ebay, I would suspect that the seller has this as a "private auction" because:

1. the seller doesn't want the potential buyers to be swamped with emails saying "this is from a book, stupid!" or "watch out, it might be a counterfeit signature!", or the like.

2. the seller has a shill bidder in place: Someone that places a fake bid to quickly raise the bid to make others assume that what they are seeing is a "hot" or "must get" item, thus creating a fake bidding war for a regular/common item.

Just my suspicious mind and 2 coconuts worth.