Greetings once more, mon ami!
Wow, how bizarre that I was so pleasantly surprised that I didn't cop yet more flak within your message, for what I had previously thought was nothing but a positive & complimentary message that I'd written, eh?!
Thanks for your informative explanation of how the practice of 'shill bidding' worked & how it has since changed, since eBay amended certain aspects of their system. Although I have made well over 5,500 eBay purchases over the past decade or so, I'm very much a consumer & thus I've sold less than 200 items within that same period, so I actually know very little about eBay's practices & have posted no more than a handful of messages upon this 'community' page - which is just as freaking well since 'Davewill1964's charming reply, I'm now thinking!!
And I previously wrote "Down Under" because at the time, I thought that this was an international eBay site. Ah, Mildura, damn it gets hot up there! While I'm presently living within my house upon the Mornington Peninsula (I moved here since the arrival of Covid-19 little more than a year ago), I'm a longtime Melbourne lad who has some very fond memories of Mildura, having played your phenomenal annual tennis tournament - during my teen years - upon those lovely grass courts (although I'm a baseliner whose style was better suited to hardcourt) every Easter for many years, until about 20 years ago. Used to play against the massive-serving Clinton Snell back then - whom many people had picked to be our (Aussie) next great hope - & you may know his father Ken, who was a copper there many moons ago?
OK, that's more than enough of my typically off-tangent verbosity, eh?! Thanks for your kindness & your time, mein Freund!
Cheers & best wishes from down south...Matt.
