A4K sells for an absolute FORTUNE

[nicholas]

Wow, someone really wanted that system at any cost

More like the seller didn't get what he wanted for it or changed his mind about selling and used a shill account to bid it up to a stupid amount.

[nicholas]

That doesn't compute.  The only way the bidding could have got to that amount is if someone else wanted it enough to pay >£4000 for it.  Even if he did do what you said (i doubt it personally) then he'd still need a competing buyer willing to pay the big bucks.

AH

Two shills are better than one.

I see the bidders names have been made private too, it always raises my suspicions does that.

[nicholas]

I always set my auctions to private these days because in the past people bidding on my stuff have been contacted by scam artists pretending to be me trying to get them to pay via money transfer.

You must be talking about way into the past then as the full names of the bidders haven't been displayed for years, just the first and last letter.

e.g. x***n, n******s etc....