02-16-2019 09:07 PM
Really I buy a lot on ebay and shill bidding is tricky and easy for sellers to do when in moderation But some of these sellers are OUT OF HAND they are so obviously shill bidding it is so so in your face..
Clues of shill bidding .. a bid on every single item and they are automatic bids
bids at same time like they will go down the line and bid on 200 items no matter what it is to set their price
Turn around and relist it if they did not get the price they wanted! This is easy to see when it is a one of a kind stone!
Please if you see this REPORT IT... I can not name these sellers but they are in India and these sellers with Fraudulent listing activities are giving the good sellers in India a bad rep and they waste your time ..
And for the ones that will write they are not shill bidding because they would not want to get in trouble!
lol please No
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06-13-2019 07:00 PM
"What should be telling about a true new member is that they can only bid 4 times before running into the new buyer bid (open transaction) limit ebay imposes on new members."
Did eBay update their policy and not update the published TOS?
"Avoiding buying limits
Buying limits are very rarely applied, but here are some tips to help you avoid them:"
https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/buying-limits-restrictions/buying-limits-restrictions?id=4012
06-15-2019 11:53 AM
If shill bidding is done correctly it is impossible to prove. Unless ebay can find a link between the sellers account and the shills account there is no way to prove it.
A seller could have a friend that lives in a different state or country do the shilling. How can you prove their accounts are linked or that they even know each other? You can't and neither can ebay.
Bid once. Bid your true max. Bid as late as possible. Be a winner!
06-30-2019 12:08 AM
06-30-2019 12:18 AM
06-30-2019 12:26 AM
Why would he have the negative removed or more importantly how would he get the negative when he's buying back his own item using a dummy account and paying Ebay their cut if he didn't inflate the price high enough to sell the item. I guarantee it's a whole lot cheaper to "buy" your item back your self, secretly of course, and pay Ebay the listing and selling fee than it is to take a $200 loss on an item that was not selling near the price they wanted. I can prove this all of course. By all means, contact me and we'll go on a journey together and you'll see exactly how it works..
06-30-2019 01:03 AM
When they make all their bids private then you can't see that the buyer is a fake account, you can't check bid history to look for patterns, nothing.. I can't crack this one. I wish Ebay gave a **bleep**. I don't know how im gonna get past this maneuver. It's genius. The perfect way to exploit Ebay's weaknesses! I hunt these **bleep**s a couple nights a week. I know, I get bored.. I've made several pack up their store and take off in minutes! But with this? They are fearless..
06-30-2019 07:22 AM
06-30-2019 02:23 PM
i too have studied a couple of the india or asian sellers and found disturbing patterns that really look like shill bidding on a massive scale.
ebay made it much harder to identify shill bidders when they made feedback and bidding activity of members, private.
if you do find a pattern looking like shill bids, you could report some of the items in the reporting form on the item's page. As suspecting it to be shill bidding.
06-30-2019 02:30 PM
yes i know that one seller with "silver" names in thier multi ID's! i looked up their seeming shill bids and may have reported a few a while back, as i recall.
06-30-2019 02:32 PM
you can still report it, as 'suspected" shill bids, if you choose the menu carefully. maybe under "other".
06-30-2019 02:36 PM - edited 06-30-2019 02:40 PM
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06-30-2019 02:38 PM
"The purpose of bidding on an item being sold at auction is to be able to purchase it for what one is willing to pay for it."
lol, nothing like ignoring the fact someone is making you pay MORE FOR IT than you should have to, due to illegal and unscrupulous fraud. Or just plain wasting your PRICELESS time WHILE THEY ARE COMMITTING FRAUD against you.
how could that not be of concern??? it's a crime for a reason.
06-30-2019 02:42 PM
oh yes that's another clue, a bidder who always bids and often wins but THERE IS LITTLE TO NO FEEDBACK AT ALL on thier feedback page. Not from that seller either, even though they won a ton of their auctions.
06-30-2019 02:46 PM
if shill bidding is a crime of fraud in the US, that is what counts- not what's legal in asia. Because ebay is an American site.
06-30-2019 02:55 PM
that was hilarious!!! thanks for the laugh.