The budding business of online art auctions is still trying to work out some of the kinks, as last month’s sham auction of a fake(?) Diebenkorn showed. “A close analysis of that and other eBay art auctions reveals that the flourishing cyberauction world faces a deeper, more intransigent problem than lone self-bidders: the prospect of rings of shill bidders, acting as partners.” – New York Times