Post #683952 by tikiskip on Sat, Jun 29, 2013 4:34 PM

I would think to put a bid of $1800.00 on this your own auction
would be kinda dumb really, not to mention a felony I think.
But then in the tiki world we know most of the players so it's not hard
to see that a guy with two letters say o****C and 4748 past buys on
eBay it is easy to know who that is.

I don't buy or sell much on eBay anymore so don't know the ins and outs,
or prices of these tiki things.
It got to a point where you could never get tiki stuff that was rare or
worth much. (Some people spend a month on tiki an amount that is more than lots o people make a month)
BUT if we post the fakes here on TC we could maybe put two and two together
and stop a few.

Also when one of these fakers puts up a bogus bid I have maybe once had a person take
a second chance offer.
So I would not think putting up a fake bid on your own item would work very well.