There's a notorious crook that lives in Euclid Ohio that has been shill bidding his own auctions for YEARS! In mass, he has been reported to eBay NUMEROUS times, and every now and then, they'll suspend his account. A few days later, he opens a new one with a different name, and starts all over again. This has been going on for YEARS! I have personally called eBay to tell them about this crook, and they CONTINUE to let him operate with impunity! He basically just keeps changing his names, but always uses the same red back ground to sell him parts, so we know it's him. We theorize he's probably using his kids names, or fictitious ones, but he always gets a new account and keeps going. He covers ALL of his parts with WD40 to make them look "better". This guy bids on his own parts, he creates multiple shill bidding accounts, and he runs his auctions WAY up, and takes advantage of unsuspecting noobies who aren't sure what some parts are worth. Example. He'll have a seat for a V65 Magna, worth about a hundred bucks. He'll list it with a big reserve, so nobody can hit it. He'll bid this auction up, with his shill bidding accounts, until it "sells" for 500 bucks. He wins his own auction. But this "noobie", who doesn't know any better, says to himself, "wow, V65 Magna seats are worth that much?" Couple days later, he relists the same auction, this time his shill bids it up to 400 bucks, and "wins" his own auction again. This "noobie" sees it and says, "wow, they really are expensive!". So he repeats this OVER AND OVER, until finally, the "noobie" sees the seat around 150 or 200 bucks, bids on it and WINS the auction for $200 bucks, and "thinks" he has gotten a great deal. In fact, he just paid twice what that part was worth! This guys does this OVER AND OVER AND OVER, with V65 parts, he has probably artificially inflated V65 Magna parts all by himself by 20-30% over the past 5 years! He was kicked off the V4 forum years ago, and he is the biggest crook on eBay, but they let him keep operating! Why? Because he is a SELLER, and they get their fees from the SELLER, so they don't give a rats a$$ how much his parts sell for, in fact, the MORE they sell for, the MORE money they make! It's absolutely rediculous! eBay and Paypal are in all this together, they are double dipping basically, and they literally get about 20% of every sale. I hate them BOTH with a passion!