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Re: I caught someone cheating in auction
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hilariousandco
on 14/04/2016, 05:15:18 UTC
Hey, So I saw someone in the auction who cheated in raising the bid with his alt. Is it allowed here or should the user be penalized for this?

How do you "penalize" users around bitcointalk ? Isn't "negative rep" the term you are looking for ?  I don't think raising bids by the Alt should be a problem.Eventually he will end up having the highest bid with his product unsold.

Not necessarily. He'll likely just use it to bump up the price then contact the other highest bidders and offer them it if the price is reasonable. I would leave negative if there was reasonable evidence for the behaviour.