What would you do?

It's been common knowledge for years (run a WWW search) and nobody that I know of (aside from you) cares as their cables still sell in the dirt cheap range.

What I do not understand is why they do not simply place a meager reserve price for the auctions, instead of going through the rigmarole of placing shill bids .

Your time may be better spent accumulating "data" on the Adcom GFA-555 that you seem to lust after.

Unless it's been washed from the Internet you should come up with a major retracted review of the unit.