I found that by go ogling "ebay red gatorbacks" was the first one to come up.
I like to go ogle, too, but usually it's not playing cards!!
Is that a spellcheck error or are you just happy to see me? I swear, spellcheckers, designed to make life easier by fixing our mistakes, only seem to make even more spectacular mistakes instead!
Yes, shill bidding is a plague on eBay. Seller A puts up an item, Buyer B bids outrageously high for it and wins, but there's one small problem - A and B are the same person! Now A can come back with a not-quite-as-high-but-high-enough "Buy It Now" price, using his own inflated example as "proof" of the item's value.
I know of one fellow who made literally dozens of different Bicycle decks who is suspected of trying the same tactic for a while, and I think he did rope in a few suckers with it. It's only a matter of time before reality sets in. Red Gatorbacks will never be a cheap deck again, not until the entire hobby collapses under its own weight and decks fetch pennies on the dollar (it's an "if or when" thing), but they certainly won't sell that high again - and one could argue that they never actually did in the first place!
