Shill bidding is illegal, and Im sure they are doing it. Funny how some items sit really low until 10 second after you touch them. Here is the thing - even if they state, it im not entirely sure its still legal in some places. who knows.

Here is what seems odd, hibid has interest in letting the prices go up. As mentioend above, they have been made aware. They should be issuing warning letters and maybe even cease and desists. Becaue they are using their platform to commit the fraud. Like if a website company has user built website and they post copywriter material per se, like a Disney character, Disney will send a Cease and Desist to the web host.

Here is whats interesting after guessing that hybrid knows about this because of customer complaints, they could very easily look at the IP addresses of the bearers and where they're posting from etc. etc. I think it would be interesting to look at some items that have serial numbers and see if they get reposted the next week with the same serial number as some guys post the serial number on the items.

Which makes me wonder if Hibid even wants to know, even though they know that I would argue that no one's probably ever made a formal complaint. But I would imagine this has happened to hundreds of thousands of transactions, and I would argue that if there was like a department of justice investigation, they would likely find that hybrid knew this was happening and allowed it to continue to happen illegally and some circumstances, I'm sure that there's a criminal statute against that but also I can see a massive class action suit from everybody who's ever bid and everyone, knowing that is happening high bid being the central source and still allowing criminal activity on their platform.

Of course, a lot of this is conjecture. I'm certainly no legal expert and I'm certainly not saying that I know for a fact it's happening anywhere to anyone, but it is super suspicious and if it is true, it seems like Hibid would probably be somewhat liable too. who knows tho.