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re: Are phantom bids legal (real estate)?

Posted on 9/3/17 at 4:00 pm to
Posted by Retrograde
TX
Member since Jul 2014
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Posted on 9/3/17 at 4:00 pm to
It's called shill bidding, and typically very hard to prove but it is illegal. I work in the world of car auctions, so I see it every day.
Posted by GoIrish02
Member since Mar 2012
1391 posts
Posted on 9/5/17 at 1:34 pm to
Auto finance companies shill bid in their own auctions? I understand this could happen with a privately owned/managed seller of cars, but seems a little harder to believe with a publicly traded seller (E.g. Toyota/Honda GMAC finance companies) with a very large, relatively homogeneous product (2-3 year old lease returns).

I'm always interested in the market dynamics of auctions in general. Any insight as to the specific dynamics of auto auctions would be interesting too.
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