I don't know if Garr lied in public (on the forum) about the account being his or not. If he did I does not look good.
Yes he did, more than once:
I can't believe what's happening here...
I did not bid up those auctions. I am not arguing the accusation that the werner account is under my control because I want to keep my BFL orders! Otherwise, believe me: I would be!
I'm having the ugly feeling Garr may be close to Theymos or other mods. Maybe they are friends in meatspace? I see a lot of indulgence.
I really don't want to beat on Garr, the mistake is not so huge and he is so young, but really puzzles me seeing his trust status so high, no tag of any kind for him, when he was just caught using shills to support his business ventures and artificially raise the price in his auctions, and then he lied to everybody until the evidence was too serious to deny the facts.
I have to say all this makes me a little sad, I've been investing a lot of time in these forums for the last months and I always had the impression that this was a fair and well balanced community, where mods were totally impartial and judged everyone by the same standards.