(08-10-2012, 12:30 PM)74Razor Wrote: What exactly are shillers? I've been bidding on some Rodgers cards and don't want to get played.
Shill Bidding is when someone deliberately bids on cards as a favor to someone else, to raise the price the seller gets. There is no intention to actually win the card, and if the shill bidder does win, no actual sale happens, and no money is spent. Sometimes the seller and the shill bidder are one and the same, just with different ebay IDs.
Shill bidders will slip in an absurd bid with nano-seconds to go.
WAYS TO BEAT SHILL BIDDERS:
#1 - Never bid a lot more than you really want to pay, just to make sure you win. Shill bidders will take you to your max. Bid only what you are willing to pay, and if you get raised up with seconds to go, RESIST another bid.
#2 - Look for items with NO bids on them, or BIN, or "make offer".
#3 - Ebay shop at 3 in the morning. Shill bidders are asleep in thier dark, damp, caves at that time. SERIOUS - look for auctions that end at very bad times (wierd AM hours - good for the bidder, bad for the seller).
rw = I am getting out of selling cards. I have had it, all I see here are people walking the malls buying #$%^%$C cell phones and shoes. I still do flea-markets, but all I sell there is team sets of local teams. I am CLEARING EVERYTHING OUT.
I still have that 2011 topps falcons gold team set (uber-nice team set), a Turner jersey card, and about to have a bunch of topps chrome falcons. A few other misc cards as well. I want to swap it all for a couple nice Packers cards, or 1 real nice Packer card. I only want 1 jersey 1 auto, and 1 RC for each Packer player. For sure I know I need the following (and probably more , just no list yet):
AUTOS = Rodgers, Matthews, Driver, AJ Hawk, stone-hands-Finley, Driver, Collins, Woodson, T.Williams.
JERSEYS = Driver, stone-hands-Finley, Driver, Collins, T.Williams, J.Jones.
BV is not important. I collect cards depending on how good they look. I just do not want any ugly cards like playoff.