It works effectively.

[olek.de2015]

Recently, auction sellers have been particularly brazen about violating eBay's terms and conditions, such as using fake accounts to increase their bids during auction sales. This fraud is covered by the platform and does not react to it in any way, it is clear that the higher the selling price, the higher the commission must be paid. Of course, this is all my sick fantasy, I'm a complete fool, and the sellers (not all) are smart and honest people who know how to make money from stupid buyers.

[dbfolks166mt]

     Can you provide a little more information on what happened to make you make this statement? What terms and conditions are they violating? 

[theteamsetguy]

@dbfolks166mt ,

I think the OP is complaining about shill bidding.

[mordecai8614]

Of course, this is all my sick fantasy, I'm a complete fool

 

[buyselljack2016]

Likely happens a bit.

Likely more often than some think.

Likely less often than some think.

I'm one of the good guys.  I pretty much list with only fixed price, and just beat the $$ out of the buyer that way.

[bashort]

Ebay likely does have some shill bidding going on but If you make a last second snipe at the most you are willing to pay it defeats the shill bidders.

[toysaver]

Or complaining about not being the winning bidder or having been sniped out again... 

There's no way buyers see behind the scenes and confirm shill bidding has occurred.  I've read many times in the community where a buyer assumes that has happened because the item is relisted a few days later unaware that nonpayment for auctions is as common as green grass in springtime.

[mam98031]

Without some examples of where this happened, there isn't much that can be said about it except guesses.

Are you willing to give us any specifics?

[isaiah53-57]

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@toysaver wrote:

Or complaining about not being the winning bidder or having been sniped out again... 

There's no way buyers see behind the scenes and confirm shill bidding has occurred.  I've read many times in the community where a buyer assumes that has happened because the item is relisted a few days later unaware that nonpayment for auctions is as common as green grass in springtime.

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There is though... Many shill bidding sellers dont know(or more likely dont care) that you can see when there is a buying account where 95% to 100% of the their 500 to 1000 bids over the last year have been on the one sellers items... Havent looked in a while, but the site might have taken away the ability to see that data, since, in my opinion, it would highlight their unwillingness to do much about the problem...

Scammers dont care about too much about anything round here, would be my guess...

[mam98031]

Examples please so we can all better understand the issue.

[dbfolks166mt]

I think the OP is complaining about shill bidding.

      Like a lot of postings on this forum OP provided no detail so I am not willing to waste effort on guessing what they are talking, or complaining, about. This may be another one of those cases where the OP never returns and was just venting. 

[itsjustasprain]

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@isaiah53-57 wrote:

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@toysaver wrote:

There's no way buyers see behind the scenes and confirm shill bidding has occurred.  I've read many times in the community where a buyer assumes that has happened because the item is relisted a few days later unaware that nonpayment for auctions is as common as green grass in springtime.

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There is though... Many shill bidding sellers dont know (or more likely dont care) that you can see when there is a buying account where 95% to 100% of the their 500 to 1000 bids over the last year have been on the one sellers items... Havent looked in a while, but the site might have taken away the ability to see that data, since, in my opinion, it would highlight their unwillingness to do much about the problem...

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@isaiah53-57: You are probably thinking of the 30-day bid history that you can see if you look at the Bid History page of the auction. (Click on the number of bids to see it.) Each bidder ID is disguised but you can click on the disguised ID to see the 30-day bidding activity for that user. That includes the number of retractions as well as all the categories he was bidding in as well as what percentage of his bidding was with that seller.