I really watch for the shilling... it can be dramatic...today is a Canadian guy who sells highly desirable art supplies...

The shillers never "win" and I keep track of their initials, and watch for the feedbacks...never do they appear. Once they get the price really high a real person will show up and buy.

I really don't like the anon buying initials that ebay put in... I think it conceals the buyers who are dishonest..and may in fact be Ebay employees to inflate sales $$ so they will get more $$ in fees. So I just avoid these in the end.

Also if I think the merchandise is stolen, I won't bid on it.

There are alot of interesting sellers though on the apothecary portions of Ebay. I met a wonderful fellow who was selling saved discarded glassware from Eli Lilly...from a collector. I bought 2 of his offers! We had some very nice back and forth messages too. No shillers on his offers either.