Thanks guys but don't pay any attention to my rants. That's mostly just what they are. Not constructive or wanting you to waste time on a reply, as nice as your replies are.

The best sellers on here are straight-forward and transparent. I'm timid and change often... 🙂 eBay is not the place for me. 🙂

I know what his worst problem is and he is lucky potential buyers don't know about it.

Yes, I know it too. I have shill bid numerous times. Probably about 10 times all up, give or take, over many months. It took a bunch of people rightly reporting me for it to stop and I have now stopped.

Simple, really. No one buys from me anyway... so it really won't make a difference admitting it or not. 🙂

I assume that when a seller reports that they have lost the item after selling it cheaply at auction they are expecting a neg.