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[QUOTE=McLovin;10274335]I agree with much of what's been posted. Definitely shady stuff going on (plants, sock puppets, shill bids, etc.). There is nothing in their system to try and prevent that, I'm not sure they even want to.


They used to be in the business of collating cool cars from source and enthusiast driven traffic. Thats the real genius of BAT. They built a loyal and engaged following, all kinds of car people contributed so the site became very credible to a sector of the market. Then they added the auctions.

They are smart because the site is not covered in advertising, does not appear greedy, & there are still some links to non BAT auction cars, not many, but enough to keep the belief.
Theoretically Pelican, could do the same thing for the brands it carries parts for, because it has the following. That's the thing you can't buy.