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It’s like ebay, but where every seller has a gun, federal backing, and literally gets paid to arrest people.

It's an auction house. They aren't giving the Marshal's service item level updates. They just give the sale to the number 2 bidder and move on.

So what you're saying is, I need 2 accounts, bid $15 with one and then up myself with the fraudulent account to $500 and get the item for 15?

People actually do this on eBay sometimes

The sale goes to the number 1 bidder at some bid increment higher than the number 2 bidder's maximum bid. The current price shown is that amount, not the number 1 bidder's maximum bid. It implements a modified Vickrey auction using an autobidder.

Sounds like the solution is to be not American.

If you goal is to defraud the U.S. Marshals Service I mean.

Like what is the U.S. Marshals Service going to do to a Romanian trickster?

>> Like what is the U.S. Marshals Service going to do to a Romanian trickster?

Get him extradited in the US after possibly serving some time in Romania as well?

> <insert the DVD Jon story here>

Ah, that's a story I havent't seen cited in a long time.

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