What Am I Missing (Ebay Lot)?

$11 shipping for 89 nickels too? Wow.

Isn't 1964 the year that the US mint produced over 3 billion nickels. Seems to me a lot of money for a chance to get a lot of "64" nickels. Oh, yeah. One unreadable Buffalo nickel. I'm a Jefferson nickel collector and I'm confused as well.

I am going to go out on a limb here. If you look at the current items for sale by this seller you will see many bids by brand new screen names or screen names with low feedback scores. I looked at some of the completed sales by this seller and found much of the same. Some items that were not even closely related had the same screen names bidding on them. To me, and this is just my opinion, these are what I term "bump bids." This means that the seller has either registered numerous screen names or enlist others to acquire screen names for the sole purpose of bumping the bids up and or create a false sense of frenzy for the items offered. This is much like the travelling "tonic" sellers of the old west. They would plant people in the audience to either make the first purchase or incite the audience to make purchases. Dirty pool if you ask me.

The seller is the actual State Treasurer's Office http://www.treasurer.il.gov/program...uctions.aspx so while I do believe that the Illinois government is less than stellar, shill bidding on it's own auctions seems like a really stupid idea.

Shill bidding most likely.

Check out the feedback. Some chump says "I paid too much -- my fault". He ponied up (or the seller ponied up) $73 for a one ounce silver bar.

This is all the more reason to believe something is not right.

It would not surprise me at all to see the Democratic People's Republic of Illinois trying to game ebay with shill bidding, they have been gouging everyone they can lately for money. Small business owners are fleeing the state because of draconian increases in fees, the state university and public school systems have been getting a couple billion dollars worth of IOUs instead of their highly dependent annual funding, and they have even been redirecting federal tax refunds to temporary holding in state coffers to earn interest money for the state treasury.

My father was owed a $5500 federal tax refund but he owed $75 in Illinois state taxes. This same Illinois Treasurer, Alexi Giannoulias(part of a banking family that made sweetheart loan deals to convicted polito-crook Tony Rezko). Illinois intercepted his entire federal tax refund to collect the $75 even though my father had already mailed them a check for $75 along with the state tax return! They held the remaining $5425 for two months(they called it "processing") and my father had to pay a check cancellation fee for the one he mailed lest they try to cash it and hit him for $150. I have talked to several others that had this same issue. Contrast that with Missouri- I was owed a $1500 federal tax refund and I owed Missouri $200. Missouri did not intercept my refund and gladly accepted the check I mailed with my return.

From another topic recently posted, http://moneycentral.msn.com/content.../p109173.asp ,this is probably how the Treasurer's ebay ID is getting most of their inventory They will take their pound of flesh any way they can get it, part of the reason why Illinois is well on their way to becoming a failed state...