At this point I am ready to walk away from the property, as it seems they may not truly be serious about selling, and are just shilling for an overpriced offer.

Most investors will run shills, and I had an HUD guy tell me last year that they got 40 bids from the same IP address, and they started watching for shills.Joe Gore

Robert some lenders that hold the deed that send their proprieties to the auction will put shills in to bid up the price.Joe Gore

People come on here shilling their crap, and it always gets immediately taken down because the moderators are awesome.

I really don't think he'd play a shill at this stage of his life.

I'll say, considering that BiggerPockets was an unknown quantity to me before this, shilling out $250 bucks (I was late to register but thanks to Marty Boardman's video clips I found out about it in time) seemed a bit on the risky side.

There is a lot of shill bidding on auction.com.

Anybody who's talking hyperinflation right now is always shilling precious metals and Shadowstats. 

This is an industry prop piece, either written by the printers or by someone acting as their shill, because it's not really journalism - just read this section:"Whether made of concrete or a polymer, these homes have shown to be far more energy efficient, sustainable and resilient than conventional wood-built homes.Just ask Tim Shea, 70, who lives in one of the ICON homes built for the homeless in Austin.

If someone were to accuse them of being a shill for the RE industry there would be good evidence.