Status bass on ebay, shill bidding?

[robocorpse]

Anyone else noticed the rather dodgy looking bid pattern on that black Status thats up at the moment?
[url="http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=110610083474"]http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V...em=110610083474[/url]
I was in the running for this, but looking at the high number of bids from a 0-feedback user who has only ever bid on auctions from this seller, I am not going to entertain it.
Unless anyone on here is either the seller or the 0-feedback bidder and can actually vouch for themselves?
And no, I wouldn't normally post info of something I was bidding on, but I thought this looked well suspicious, and I wouldn't want a fellow BCer to get ripped off.
I hate ebay. Too much suspicion.

Edited November 16, 2010 by robocorpse

[Gust0o]

Only ever bid on this item, in fact.

Correction: I have reported the item.

Edited November 16, 2010 by Gust0o

[Chris2112]

Even then, these daft S2000 basses have been so vastly over inflated, along with the other Status models.

A couple of years ago, when the market was great and money was flowing freely these were selling for a few hundred quid, firmly established as the poor cousin of the S2. S2's could be had for less than a grand. I was offered Kingbass #4 for £800. Now, these are coming up at ridiculous prices, well over £1000. And the value of old S2's in particular stays very strong, well above inflation.

I recall someone recently saying how he had always wanted one of these but then the market priced itself up by people asking for more and more for these basses. At £1000, you could have something really good from Status for a little bit more...

[SS73]

Classic example, trouble is most other innocents will have completely no idea whats going on, the whole fu....g thing gets me and ebay have no real reason to stop it, why should they?.

[Rich]

Thanks for the heads-up Mr. Corpse it looks dodgier than a £5 necklace in a pub car park. I'm going to move this to the ebay Links section.