Good point Steve - that crossed my mind as well. "Technically" a bannable (sp?) offense according to eBay (called "fee avoidance").

The problem here is the bidders were told it would sell even if it didn't make reserve - and that is plain wrong. In fact, you can LOWER your reserve while the auction is still running if the reserve hasn't been met - that would've been the right thing to do. In fact, in his message below he said he'd sell it if it got over $500. THAT should've been the reserve!