eBay vrs42?

[der Mouse]

> Both wanted the item.  Obviously before the end of the auction, they
> communicate and determine who will try to win it.  After the auction,
> the one that declined to bid writes me asking for another identical
> item (and admits to colluding).  Is this not an attempt to keep the
> price low?

Certainly.  And what's wrong with that?  You say it as though it were a
Bad Thing.  But keeping the price low sounds to me like a perfectly
normal, reasonable, and accepted - expected, even - thing for a buyer
to do.

You clearly either disagree or see something wrong with that particular
*way* of keeping the price low, but unless it's the former I don't see
what you wrote as any real explanation.

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