Longtime YJA bidders, please drop an opinion. This YJA handle was an infamous sniper before YJA changed its bidding policy.

What do you think?

Im not a fan of shigahara71.

I would be so bold to say yes, something not right w/ that user.

Jason, do you know what policy changed? was it instated to stop shill bidders etc?

Oh I asked about shiga before too, someone responded that they are legit with a lot of cash.

No, just that now you can't snipe on YJA, I believe that you can enter a last moment bid, and then the auction conclusion is set back another 10 min. and bidders can continue to reset the "clock" until there are no more bids.

I'm not so sure about that.

That's what I thought because I see them buying and selling on both ends. I may have even purchased something from them before. Can't say for sure unless someone actually knows them in person.

the 10 min. thing isnt new, thats been around for years.

Ok, then I guess its only recently that I've been screwed by it.

How where you screwed ?

I always liked it as you had the option to think about what your doing. But I can see that shillbidders can make a killing this way.

Yep.
Actually makes more sense than the ebay setup.
Discourages sniping in my view.

Rich, a couple of times recently it just seemed like some bidding IDs have been used to jack up prices at the very last moment, and it was an alternating set of IDs.

i'm all for sniping!!

Yeah I have felt the pain also, so I'm betting your right. But in the end if I had to chose I would chose the 10 minute rule everytime.

Well, I'm sure there are a few sellers out there that recognize which buyers tend to go large on YJA sales, so it shouldn't be too surprising that some shill bidding might go on.

Best thing to do is set your final price, and if they outbid it... let them win it. If they get stuck having to pay for the stuff they're bidding up, it might make them think twice.

And at least YJA doesn't hide bidders names unlike ebay

Totally agree.

this is the WORST new feature.

this name sounds familiar...

I'm shigahara71, so you can all piss-off.

DOH!

Nuh, uh....

difficult to tell yet but he looks legit.

Joe, based on what exactly?

Kaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnn!!!!

http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/sh ... =b89061743

Totally nuts. I finally had to put the crack pipe down.

Two more of these have been sold in the 40,000 yen range recently, but no header for either of thoses.....

Yikes.

What was it?