Yes, I have heard complaints from people about getting suspended, without any appeal. It appears if the individual takes the time to explain, they might get a reversal?

It's not that hard to search high bids for people and chick on a few auctions, which will start to show a pattern. Now if this was the only indicator goldplated would have been suspended as well. (whoever that is, is a very active casino chip collector) And I did recognize some regulars who bought items from the people in the subject line.

Here's what might have been suspicious. bubba1994 was high bidder on many items for victorc3 and mrjoeb. Mrjoeb was high bidder on many items from victorc3 and jomodad. For all I know it's just kind of odd.

So for what it's worth, it looks like nothing more than shill bidding.