There Is A 1948 S$1 MS-63 R/D NGC On Ebay

Speaking of shill bidding, this auction would be raising signs of caution in my head. It might not mean anything but this eBayer's history, who's upped the bid hundreds of dollars at a time, is not very typical as it indicates an extraordinary number of auctions items bid on, only a star rating of 8 that indicates a very low volume of completed buys, and also more bid retractions than buys.

Wow that an obvious case of shill bidding.

Any shill bidding that I've ever later found out about was low feedback bidders who bid on dozens of items simultanously so as to have people assume exactly as above. Not saying they are, just that from my experience there are several things that fit the profile.

Absolutely not. Lots of bidders do this to try and ward off other bidders. They think if the bid count is really high people will think they'll never get it for a good price because of the illusion of "so many people" wanting it. Common tactic. Instead of putting in a $1,000 proxy when the bidding is at $500 they'll put in as many bids as the current increment allows until they get to $1,000. That way it might add 40 bids to the bid count instead of 1.

Personally I don't think ebay should change the bid count for successive bids like this, only if the high bid changes when you bid.

Must try this tactic, recently being sniped a lot at last seconds.

Someone has a rotated dies 1948 silver dollar in PCGS AU58 for $5000. Now that is waaaaaaaaaaay overpriced!! lol!

I'm still sceptical. Yes the bidder has only bid on 6% of the buyers items but we can't see who the other sellers are in order to determine whether there's a inter-connection between those sellers or not or if one person has various accounts, perhaps to avoid the eye of the CRA by staying under the annual high sell limit. As more people become aware of shill bidding I'd imagine those that utilize the practise become more devious.

This one who bids on 282 auction items (totalling 875 bids) and wins at most 6, highly unusual coupled with the retractions, appears occasionally they win auctions by accident, without any intention of doing so. Otherwise it would seem their sole function is to push up the bid. It just doesn't seem logical to me someone would involve themselves in so many auctions and avoid buying, I don't get what would be the point.