[CR] Shill bidding pattern?

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From: "Steven Maasland" <themaaslands@comcast.net>
To: CR <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:20:29 -0500
Subject: [CR] Shill bidding pattern?


About one week ago, I pointed out a Chesini frame that was up for sale. It was bid up to an amount that would still have made the frame purchase what I believe to have been quite a good deal. Oddly enough, the same frame popped up once more this week, even though it had apparently sold the last time. I therefore checked into the bidding pattern of both the last auction as well as the relisting and lo and behold a truly strange bidding pattern turns up.

In auction http://ebay.com/<blah>

In the relisting http://ebay.com/<blah>

Am I reading too much into this or does something really stink here?

Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ
USA