Why Is This Coin Being Sold Raw?

The "winning" bidder has 90% of their bidding activity with GSC. They also placed a a higher bid above their winning bid to make sure they "won" the coin.

Most likely the "winner" was a shill for GSC (or the real owner of the coin protecting their investment!)

Good catch westernsky. I know GSC is infamous for photography that hides flaws but I figured that if they had something that seemed ok I'd give them a try as I could always return it. But now that it appears extremely likely that they use shill bidding there is no way I'd buy from them.

Hey wait a second, the 3rd highest bidder with 11,251 feedback score, and the next highest with 1,666 score also shows as 100% with this seller. Is there something wrong with ebay's system or are we reading this wrong?

Scrolling down the list, there is a bidder with 19,600 feedback score with 64% of bis activity with this seller. How is this even possible?

Andrew99, ebay should have algorithms to catch people doing this, but they don't for whatever reason. As far as the final value fees go, you can do what is known as a mutual cancellation where the buyer clicks a couple links which sends a notice to the buyer. The buyer then clicks that he agrees to the cancellation and no money changes hands between them or with ebay.

ebay doesn't aggressively police the shill problem because it would cut into their end-game revenue stream and prosecuting offenders would cost money.

They do slap the hands of Seller/shillers that they catch by making them go do an online tutorial and suspending them for a couple of weeks. TOS does allow them to close accounts.

The big players (like GSC) probably have shillers located off-premises which makes it harder to catch (and prove) shilling.

We all know what is going on though.