Bait? Or real price?

[Kamisha]

Hi, I just found this ended listing with enormously huge price: https://www.ebay.com/itm/154038897206

It is possible that she sold for such price or it's just a trick to make us think that this figure is that valuable? O____O

[CloudyGlow]

What on Earth? I looked up this particular Luna before and she sells for a good price, but not that good!

[banditpony]

Kinda hard to say. It seems like the seller is pretty established, and that they relisted 2 tall Lunas a few times..

The people who bid high on Luna have 0 feedback accounts, and bid on the other items 0 on items from the same seller.. so a shill account from a friend is out.

So it kinda makes me think someone was messing with the seller.

ETA:
You can look at their completed listings. Type "Tall Luna" within the seller's listings, and you'll see the 2 Luna's that were relisted 2-3 times.

And while we can no longer see names, you can still look up who bid on the item, and their history with said seller. (Click on how many bids an auction has, then you can click the garbled u**d name).

[tailrustedtealeaf]

Money laundering or a kid with too much access to the internet and not enough access to the credit cards. It was also listed as sporting goods > equestrian ?

[goddessofpeep]

You do get the occasional legitimate insane auction ending price, and it’s often due to what I like to call “nibbling”.  You get two(or more) bidders in a buying frenzy repeatedly upping their bid to *just* outbid each other.  I’ve gotten sucked into one of those a few times. “I already bid $123, what’s $3 more?” Have that conversation with yourself enough times, and you end up at the crazy price.  It usually happens to newer bidders as well. However, that entire bid history involves 0 or 1 feedback bidders, and the price is so excessive, it’s incredibly likely they’re just messing around and the seller won’t get paid.  Sadly that’s a thing on ebay. That’s why you get some extremely high value auction sellers insisting on contacting the bidders before allowing them to bid.  Some people just want to mess around. If they have 0 feedback, they have nothing to lose. They just make a new account if the old one gets banned for non payment.

[LadyAmalthea]

If you click on the 'relisted item' link, it then 'sold' for $106, and then $15, and then $23.50. So unless the seller had more than one of these to sell, I'm guessing someone bid and was just messing around and didn't pay for it several times before it finally sold for the $23.50 after being listed for the 4th time.

[lovesbabysquirmy]

I would say this is seller manipulation - the buyers are "playing" and have no intention of paying  

[eveningstar79]

Wow, that’s crazy  I’ve never seen anything like that before. Some weird stuff can happen on eBay sometimes I guess.

[FernMariposa919]

Good lord, I don't think even Rapunzel would sell for that much! When I saw that the bidders had zero feedback, I figured it wasn't legit...and also who would pay that much money for something that (I presume; I'm not very well versed in the G4 toys) isn't even rare?

[shabbychicdee]

that is dodgy as heck and i feel real sorry for that seller as they have really good feedback and someone is doing that to them.
i notice another person is now trying to sell one for $200, hummmm, still a little high for a store bought non exclusive.

[Taffeta]

Knowing how the dregs of the brony community can behave, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a targeted attack on that specific seller for some reason. The fact it's happened more than once is suspicious for a repeated attack.

Although the relists don't mention anything. It just seems to be too much for a shilling example. It could be people trying to hype the value of their own item, but I doubt it. I think it's either trolling for lulz or because said seller refused to give someone something for free/reported someone for non payment/something on those lines.