you have tons of cash and you want to buy something, but you don't want to pay a fair price.

so you get in touch with your friendly broker and tell him what you are willing to pay, knowing that he will get the price down by selling unlimited amount of shares at small trades 500 shares at a time to himself or a buddy, until the price is where you want it........ then he scoopes up several hundred thousand shares from worn out shareholders.

this is all legal.... and we can watch it happen day after day. it's the free marketplace.