Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by rikkus 3587 days ago
The 'winner' is also a shill account. These 'auctions' are there to make it look like real people are winning at low prices.

Proof that this fools people easily can be seen in the credulous linked article.

1 comments

It's still a valid article to analyze the site and point out that even if everything they're showing is true, it's still a scam. Since the best possible case is still "stay the heck away from these things", it can only get worse from there once you start mixing in outright fraud.