that many people were fined by E-bay $90,000 for intentional bidding on items to raise the price of an item. Its funny I almost got caught in one myself when the price of some chips I was bidding with one person kept going up way to far. I finally stopped and the other person got it. At that point I did not care. a minute later I got an e-mail for a second chance offer. Then I realized I had been taken. This was by a person I had done business with before. I did not report her but I did e-mail her and never heard a reply back.