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Mikebellmerchantile

Nov 23 2025

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Shill Bidding

Am I late on this? Probstein created the new platform Snype, only to have to shut down soon after launch because it crashed. Then someone was able to look through their database because it wasn’t protected 😅 and eventually found out their were over 11,000 shill bids from Snype itself on their auctions.

If this is all true then how can we get this to stop? There’s only so many shill bids I can fight off on eBay alone and now we’re finding out it could be on other platforms as well. I wonder if eBay would be able to do an investigation themselves into the past potential shillings on eBay, now that we all have AI that could look into it without needing to worry about paying someone to look and report back. Want to know what you all think 💭

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