How to identify the fake bidders?
Bids compete with other buyers. Other buyers bid too high to buy, but they don't buy. Not only us, but also genuine buyers are inconvenienced by these activities. The actual price of the item also goes down. Have you faced this situation? How to avoid these situations?
5 comments
johnrj1226
·1 year agoSoultion: Don't do auctions.
Big price run ups don't happen as much as you think - they are just a dream.. Buyers don't really want stuff they "might" score, most items are sold at the starting auction price, sellers limit their potential buyers size due to time zone differences, too many "game" players. People want to buy an item now and receive it "pronto"vs "hoping and wishing" they will get it at a cheap price. Other than that auctions are just fine.
This is my opinion and am sticking to it.. Like your navel - every one has one. - but there are innies, and outies and lint filled or gem stone decorated ones
In our area in GA 48 miles east of Atlanta - the two Friday and Saturday night auctions have closed their doors several years ago - our county has grown from 54K to 131K since 1996.
Your call
mam98031
·1 year agoAll buyers on Ebay are buyers. Whether they are honest good buyers is a different question. But they aren't fake.
If you want to ensure that your buyers pay, set your Buyer Requirements in your Site Preferences to ensure this will happen. There is a setting towards the bottom that requires buyers to enter a payment source and ship to address BEFORE they can bid. If they are the winner of the auction, Ebay allows them one hour to change the payment source or ship to address. After that one hour Ebay automatically processes the payment to the seller.
paraquip
·4 years agoI was to preface my response by saying that ebay does not do enough to keep the bad buyers/bidders off of their site. Just like there is an algorithm for non-paying bidders where you set your selling profile to block people that have XXX non-paying bidders strikes there should also a "Wiki block" function where if enough sellers block a buyer ahead of time.....they are simply punted from the site.
Under normal circumstance I sell about 200 items a week and block 1-2 buyers from every buying anything from me.
Here are some of the trigger questions that will get you blocked:
How old to I have to be to buy? Ebay requires buyers to be 18 under their TOS
Can you ship the package to this address (instead of the one on my account)
Can you cancel my order I never meant to buy it ( instead of using ebay cancellations)
Can you ship my item to the next town over to it's leagal for me to buy
Can we do the deal outside of ebay
At 3AM in the morning....... If I buy now can you ship my package in the next hour
If I pay now can you overnight my item? 1 feedback
I want to waive the adult signature can you do that.
I want to buy this now can you hold the items for 2 weeks until I get paid
People that make $1 offers on $200 items
People that make silly offers across most of my listings.
People that try to send me their own shipping labels
People that are abnormally aggressive in questions some like......I know your product it total junk so I'll offer you half (item is new int he box)
People that complain before buying about how they get screwed on ebay
See a pattern here? For the integrity of the platform....people like this need to shop elsewhere
With regards to manipulative bidding........
People logged in on 2 computers from the same IP address and different accounts..... one account bids low the second bids way over market and cancels bids to drive the price down
Sellers that bid on their own items to drive price up
Big ticket items where people win with zero feedback and disappear....never sell a car on ebay unless you want to sell it 4 times before a buyer shows up.
Sent offer buyers that have very low feedback and never pay.....about 80% of my sent offers never pay.
All to be sad that ebay needs to do some serious cleanup on the buyer side and simply not continue to punish its sellers
HK
longie_long
·3 years agoThis is the answer I was looking for. Kinda.
In the vintage video games space, things have gotten crazy since the Pandemic. I see tons of listings where mysterious bidders are pushing lots to hundreds over their value. The only thing I can figure is the seller is trying to ratchet up the bids being placed on their listing by bidding from a burner account, or some dingdong is trying to nerf the bid for everyone else in hopes of catching it for cheaper at re-listing. After they refuse to pay for the lot they won at double the retail price.
Maybe I'm just cranky, though.
linderoluxury8
·1 year agoI think I have two bidders who have bid so high no one else will bid. .. I think it's one person with two accounts. If they both pull out with just 12 hours to go I end up with nothing. What can I do? Thanks