On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:51:16 GMT, "Kris Baker"
declared:


"paghat" wrote in message
news

Watching this saga unfold in this thread was terribly interesting.
It's too bad it takes wary collectors rather than Ebay itself to stop such
overt criminal fraud.

-paghat the ratgirl


Outside of spotting the shilling (and there are lots of new bidders
for 99-cent items), who at eBay would know as much as the
collectors here?

In a perfect world, eBay would "know" immediately about things
like this.....but eBay works the same way as the real world:
self-policing.

Who reports most crimes? The police, or the general public?

agreed, but part of the problem in reporting something like this
(outside of the shilling) is that ebay doesn't know anything about
books. in fact even the "managers" of the book section don't
neccessarily know anything about books and probably wouldn't get
consulted anyway on something like this.




robert

"there must be one night in your life that you will remember forever.
The must be one night for everyone. And if you know that the night
is coming on and that this night will be that particular night, then
take it and don't question it and don't talk about it to anyone ever
after that. For if you let it pass it might not come again. Many have
let it pass, many have seen it go by and have never seen another like it,
when all the circumstances of weather, light, moon and time, of night hill
and warm grass and train and town and distance were balanced upon the
trembling of a finger."