HRS §445-24
Fake bids at auctions are illegal
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This law makes it illegal to use fake bids at an auction. It covers people who arrange fake bids, auctioneers who raise bids themselves, and anyone who pretends to bid or buy. The section is narrow and only bans these deceptive practices.
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The statute, as written — Fictitious bids
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
At any auction sale it shall be unlawful for any person to procure any person to make fictitious bids, or to conspire with any person to make any fictitious bid, or knowingly to permit any person to make a fictitious bid; or for any auctioneer fictitiously to raise any bid oneself; or for any person to act as a by-bidder, or what is commonly known as a "capper", "booster", or "shiller", or offer to make any false or fictitious bid, or pretend to bid for, or pretend to buy, any article sold or offered for sale.
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