I'm not the one who said you you were using a shill. I said that I didn't see evidence of shill bidding.

Then you posted that you do use shills or as you called them protective bids.

There is nothing wrong with your emailing potential buyers (assuming this is not unsolicted email) to tell them about your auctions.

I don't care if one bidder buys all of your chips. But using a protective bid as you call it is different. The protective bid is not really a bid from someone offering to buy the chip. It is lying and saying that there was a higher bid when no one else did in fact make an offer to buy the chip at that price. If an actual transaction takes place according to the high bid then we are not talking about a shill.

There was a long thread about bidders who don't bid against their friends. I don't feel the need to rehash that whole thread.

So, in one post you admit to using shills and defend the practice and in the next post you suggest that in fact you don't use shills. Which is it?