David, I think the difference between our interpretations of what I wrote can be summed up; I was outlining the possibility of fake bids and you were taking it to mean that there were already fake bids. I wanted to make the distinction between the two stances. When I said that multiple ID's were being used, I meant they were being used to ask himself a question, not that they were neccessarily being used to bid, as of yet.
The only point I was trying to make is that he asked himself a question which means control of a second ID. With control of a second ID there is potential for bidding with this second ID.
I would also like to make a counterpoint to your comment about not needing a reserve because he could simply pull the item off if the bidding didn't get high enough; Pulling an item doesn't really work very good because you can't end it in the last 24 hours. In the last 24 hours is when you get your most bids, usually. So, if he were to pull it before the last 24 hours, he would never really see the potential of the item. It would be more effective for a crooked seller to use the fake ID that he used to asked the question with to pump up the price. If he gets enough bids he will not ever have to cross the line into the unethical side of the auctioning. It's like having a loaded weapon. I wanted to point out the loaded weapon.
Finally, everything that I wrote was written to help educate anyone that may not already know the ins and outs of a crooked eBay auction. I'm a firm believer that if we all know the tricks, the tricks become much less effective and we all win by the prices not being pumped up artificially. We all know that the prices get high enough on a fair auction.
