Auctioneer bidding on the auctioned item is perfectly fine around the world in various auctions. It's a form of concealed reserve price.
I have never, never heard about auctions who allow a person auctioning an item to bid on it in order to set a concealed reserve price. Again, do you have examples of auction houses that allow that?
I can imagine an auction house allows that if they take
10-15% commission. And if the seller bids 20 million on his own item, I can imagine they don't mind taking 2-3 million of his money as commission so that he can buy back his own item.
That high commission makes it very unattractive to the seller to do.
You say it's allowed under US law. Personally, I have nothing to do with their law, as I'm not in their country. Whether it's allowed or not, it strikes me as "weird" to bid on your own auction, and it's certainly not something I would expect to happen. And I'm not the only one. In your auction thread, you surprised
wheelz1200,
Lairew,
acharias,
Lincoln6Echo and
minerjones.
On the other hand, thread
USER ANDUCK Bidding on own auction.. was opened 1.5 years after the auction, and based on
User Vod abusing DT position (petty red-rating with provable lies as a reason) it really looks like a personal conflict between the two of you.