what should I do

mrsmess

hi
just bid on a set of draws and won. However got up this morning to a email from another bidder informing me the seller had bid on all her own stuff sure enough one bidder had 4 feedbacks all from the seller. He has reported her to ebay and suggested I do the same .Is it just malice on his part because he did not win . I really want the draws and although I paid a little more than I would have liked I saved £82 buy getting them from ebay. should I pick up the draws and report her? she has 100% feedback so far but I feel I have been a little conned.

seabiscuit_2

Id check to see how often similar drawers appear on ebay and what they normally fetch

if they dont appear very often and you are desperatly wanting these at the price you bid, then, id probably collect them and then report her

highguyuk

If you want the item, don't put yourself out.

You bid, you won, go get the item you want! lol.

carrie483

Make sure you do report her though, you dont want others to be caught out by a possible shiller. Go to https://www.goofbay.co.uk/ebay_tools and put the item number in the 'regular bidder' box and see what pops up.

Carrie.

angelcake

If you really want them get them first before letting the person know you are onto them as this will make things difficult!! you wanna contact her afterwards and say this person has contacted you with regards to the shilling and has said you reported her, perhaps get a little money off - what you would have paid if they didn't shill bid - to not report her! she will probably get kicked off anyway!

Father_Jack_2

mrsmess wrote:

hi
just bid on a set of draws and won. However got up this morning to a email from another bidder informing me the seller had bid on all her own stuff sure enough one bidder had 4 feedbacks all from the seller.

I quite often get the same people bidding on my items so I don't think that just because she has bought 4 items from the same person means that there is shill bidding going on. I find that if a buyer is happy with one purchase from you then they will more often than not come back for more.

lil_me

If they are collection only items why wouldn't someone bid on a few items if they were interested and wanted to buy them, just MO of course

frivolous_fay

Do some digging.

Does the other bidder leave pos feedback unrealistically quickly after the end of the auction?
Are they buying the same things repeatedly?
How many things have they BID on, but not won? (advanced search)