[bbdon]

Matt, My name is Don Coffman. I sell on eBay with the user name Novadon. I guess I took this personally because this is one of the few cars discussed here that I might actually be able to afford, I toyed with the idea of bidding myself. Not seriously, but enough to linger on the auction and this thread for a while.
The situation that you have described hypotheticly is shill bidding and it is about the same to me as stealing from the other bidders. With respect to the car in question, you know the reserve and bid under that number intentionally? Just to bring the bidding up to where you thought is should be? Am I correct? The bid was clearly made with the intention of helping the auction price go higher, not to actually buy the car.
If you, as an experienced businessman cannot see the obvious ethical problem that is created here, I'm speechless, I don't know how to help. I have only had very basic business conduct study from work, but I know this is not right.