Seller has another Acct Inflating bids on their Auctions

[shortstopsportscards1]

Seller  has had another Acct Inflating her auctions for at least 2 weeks now. The other acct, K***K  has bid on every auction she has posted. If said auction doesn't exceed the highest bid K***K  has placed then a 24 hour auction for the same Item is Posted.  K***K has Won over 60 of her auctions, How is this happening

[ebooksdiva]

Shills don’t try to win bidding. They increase the price of the item but never try to win. So it’s not a shill.
The bidder you are seeing probably just loves what that seller is selling and bids on those items a lot, nothing wrong with repeat business. 

[shortstopsportscards1]

Yea Right - Knowing that the product (Pokemon Card Packs) has a rare chance of pulling a high end card from packs. Been in this bussiness of Trading Cards to long not to see a Cheat

[heckofagame]

You are not allowed to name and shame in these forums. And you have no actual proof, only speculation.

[ckimodog]

@shortstopsportscards1 

Thanks for letting us know. 

[albertabrightalberta]

@shortstopsportscards1 

You are correct. There are at least 2 shills, one with 64 feedbacks and the other with 1 feedback. 

@ebooksdiva 

It's definitely shilling though you're correct that shills don't try to win. But in many cases, it backfires and SCOs are sent or items are relisted. 

[dbfolks166mt]

     If you suspect shill bidding you should report it to eBay even though they have checks in place to catch shill bidders it does not catch all of them. I believe shill bidding is also illegal in certain situations. 

[luckythewinner]

How is this happening

Quite simply, it is happening because K***K  is going to the auction listings and placing bids. I know this sounds like a smarty pants answer, but you asked.

eBay allegedly has software in place to detect shill bidding, but I doubt it is a real-time system. It probably only runs periodically and I suspect it would have a threshold of bids, a threshold percentage of bids with the same seller, and would also count non-payment cases in those auctions. 

[albertabrightalberta]

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@luckythewinner wrote:

would also count non-payment cases in those auctions. 

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My guess would be that in cases of "oops" shilling in which the shill wins, the seller would be canceling at buyer's request rather than letting the cases cancel for non-payment.

[lacemaker3]

Not all shills avoid winning.

If the seller doesn't want to sell below a certain price, then using a shill to "win" the auction is a great strategy.

The seller just cancels the "shill"s bid for a bogus reason, then either sends a second chance offer, or relists the item.

Dishonest sellers have been doing this for at least 15-20 years, because that's how long I have noticed it happening on eBay.