HKDN participated in 7142 public auctions of which 5194 were Oliver's, so 73% of his public auction activity. He won 425 public auctions of which 379 were Oliver's, so 89% of his wins. He spent $189,421 of which $177,404 went to Oliver, so 94% in terms of dollar volume. He was the runner up in 2560 public auctions of which 2260 were Oliver's, so 88% of the time he was a runner up. Oliver may have more auction pages I'm not aware of or were shut down so the results could be even higher.
This mysterious "large buyer" seems very into Oliver's auctions. In theory if this alias is Oliver, he would have paid out $17,704 in commissions to NJ on accidental wins but pushed up bids more than $800k for other winners, so that would be a hell of a return. With all I said above, several of HKDN's wins going back to Oliver after being briefly in the WHOIS as Marque, the parking stuff Donny found, the WHOIS for HKDN being completely fake, etc. I find it really hard to believe this is a legitimate buyer. All of this is, of course, circumstantial though.
Again, my last post about winner8888 which Oliver confirms is his but says it is a bot, had incorrect stats. Some people missed my correction post or misunderstood me so I want to clarify. It actually participated in 85% of auctions across all the targeted inventory and 84% across Oliver's inventory, so it didn't seem to favor his own auctions at all in terms of back orders. So that doesn't contradict his claims.
That said, the alias was twice as likely to win an auction that wasn't Oliver's, almost 3x as likely to be a runner up in auctions that weren't Oliver's, and paid more than 6x in dollar volume on wins that weren't Oliver's. Wouldn't it stand to reason that if it was an unbiased bot, that the percentage of wins, runner-ups, and amount spent should be pretty proportional to Oliver's auctions versus other people's auctions?
To me this pattern feels like a human legitimately bidding in other people's auctions, but then also using the account to goose his own. Maybe it is a half-truth, the "bot" part of it is placing back orders, and then he manually bids. I find it hard to believe the bot was sophisticated enough to jump in and actually place real money, live bids but was not sophisticated enough to avoid his own auctions.
And again, even if it was a bot it is still his responsibility to make sure it doesn't violate TOS and bid on his own auctions. The winners of these auctions that fought winner8888 need to be made whole, either by NameJet or Oliver, to the tune of nearly $20k.
And the fact remains that Oliver bid in 148 of his own auctions as seek. He claimed to be reviewing his auctions daily to send reserve price drops to NameJet (seems true), so I find it hard to believe he didn't recognize his own names just hours later when he was bidding. But again, even if it was an honest mistake those bidders need to be made whole who fought seek and won in his own auctions, to the tune of more than $3.5k.
If Oliver is HKDN then I don't think either NJ or Oliver can afford to make that right, it is more than $800k in refunds using a conservative method.
Regarding the Booth auctions, I haven't posted anything because I couldn't find anything really damning. Boothcom bid in four of Oliver's auctions and won one of them, and BQDNcom bid in 13 of Oliver's auctions and won 4. I believe only a couple were owned by Andy, so this seemed more likely to be an honest mistake than a shill bidding scheme.
But what
@tld_org said is spot on, if Andy thought these were Oliver's why wasn't he clued in when he saw Oliver bidding to win? Andy claims he thought Oliver wasn't paying close enough attention, but he didn't think it was a serious enough problem to call/text/email him and let his close friend know he was accidentally shill bidding? Maybe he knew of Oliver's activities all along?