Please follow the auction of this turd, screenshot the salient features of the auction showing it to be a turd and the seller. Then, when the auction closes and there is a “winner”, screenshot that “bidder” list. I suspect what we will see, as with most of these, is there will be an obvious break at the reasonable retail price range of bidding by obviously legitimate bidders, then the NR, “new” and low/sparse feedback suspicious bidding kicks in. A good bit of the market manipulation is just that, artificial and fraudulent prices and bidding to artificially drive the market up for the short term profits of these “dealers.”
This will kill our hobby as much as humping. Ironically, many of the humped rifles have their prices driven up the same way. It’s hard for me to conceive of a legitimate bidder who has $3500 to blow on an obvious turd yet is so stupid. We need to start documenting all of this with screenshots, not simply links that die in 90 days. These are all simply my humble opinions.
I ask because I wonder how these NR guys find out about them? Also because in at least one case fairly recently the account was made only hours after the rifle was listed and of course the first thing the brand new shill (I mean bidder) did was bid on THAT rifle. Next day another brand new NR account and you guessed it... he HAD to bid on that rifle. Nothing to see there.
