I bid on a wheelset on the bay yesterday and was easily the high bidder for a bit........then, another "member" bid me up to my max, then bid over, then retracted their bid within 4 minutes citing that they "could not contact seller". After searching the other bidders I found that all of them had bid on this sellers items in the past with one of them having 78% of their activity with this seller.....many of them 1 bid wins.

Then I went to the ebay discussion boards and listened to all the libel and slander warnings followed by some discussion that leads me to believe I have been a victim of shilling. Seller has a sparkling record a LOT of sales under his belt. I went ahead and paid for my item, but I am a bit irritated by all of this........Rant over.