In the past, when shill bidders were unearthed (and proven) they were kicked off the site. Generally speaking, the shill bidder is either the seller under another name or an accomplice, so the seller would be booted as well.
Joyce Kilmer:
I think that I shall never see
a chicken crossing roads like thee.
You first went here, then there, like that,
until that semi squashed you flat.
Don't have an answer, just bumping this one up in hopes that someone else does. All google seems to find is stuff about the movie Ray, and that would have been a hard photo to take...
They realize it. Ebay knows exactly what it's doing. Shill bidding, especially when it's hard to detect, is most definitely to ebay's advantage.
Definitely.
And now they don't have to worry about amateur detectives uncovering the shenanigans. It stinks.
Personally, I think that's the problem right there. I'm just not that fond of what's being done in animal breeding of any species. Too many problems are created in the "perfection" of the line.