eBay vrs42?

[woodelf]

Jim Battle wrote:

>> Shill bidding is the seller (or one of the seller's associates) putting
>> in fraudulent bids to jack up the price, with no intent of actually
>> transacting a sale if the shill bid wins.  I think everyone can see
>> why this is unethical.
>>
>> But if two bidders choose to cooperate rather than getting in a bidding
>> war, how is that unethical?  Not in the seller's interest, certainly,
>> but the seller's interest isn't what dictates ethics.  The bidders
>> choosing to cooperate doesn't make any of the bids fraudulent.
>
>
> The way I view it is this.
>
> Shill bidding is the result of two people agreeing to artificially 
> raise the selling price of an item that is supposedly offered in a 
> free market.
>
> Likewise, colluding with other prospective bidders to artificially 
> lower the selling price of an item is depriving the seller of rightful 
> revenue.

Well I view it this way, as long as other people have a fair chance to 
bid I don't see this
as unethical.  Personaly I don't like the idea of  bidding in the first 
place.
Ben alias woodelf.