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Grading and shill bidding issues that have come up
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<blockquote data-quote="olisuds" data-source="post: 513276" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>As much as I dislike it shill bidding happens everywhere. Despite eBay saying it's not allowed, they don't really do anything about preventing it. And do people realise that most auction houses including Vectis even allow it!? If not, then read their terms. If you expect there is always a chance of this happening and just bid what you are prepared to pay then you won't get stung. Anyone with a "whatever it takes" attitude is taking big risks of over paying.</p><p></p><p>I have long thought that there is some very suspicious over grading for some of the bigger UKG and AFA customers. At the last echo I discussed with a fellow collector that we were amazed by some of the high UKG grades with very obvious paint rubs.</p><p></p><p>As for CAS we'll a few years back I recall them being slated for giving a DT sabre with pieces missing an 80 grade. Not to mention the owners: Ken Black and the Sellersville Auction fraud; Todd DeMartino and the Saga Museum book order that never eventuated more than a decade later and one of the other officers being a major toy dealer who sells graded high end figures himself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="olisuds, post: 513276, member: 2119"] As much as I dislike it shill bidding happens everywhere. Despite eBay saying it’s not allowed, they don’t really do anything about preventing it. And do people realise that most auction houses including Vectis even allow it!? If not, then read their terms. If you expect there is always a chance of this happening and just bid what you are prepared to pay then you won’t get stung. Anyone with a “whatever it takes” attitude is taking big risks of over paying. I have long thought that there is some very suspicious over grading for some of the bigger UKG and AFA customers. At the last echo I discussed with a fellow collector that we were amazed by some of the high UKG grades with very obvious paint rubs. As for CAS we’ll a few years back I recall them being slated for giving a DT sabre with pieces missing an 80 grade. Not to mention the owners: Ken Black and the Sellersville Auction fraud; Todd DeMartino and the Saga Museum book order that never eventuated more than a decade later and one of the other officers being a major toy dealer who sells graded high end figures himself. [/QUOTE]
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