Accused of Shill Bidding ...

emby

sassy-one wrote: »

In no way excusing you OP, Shill bidding is a serious criminal offence and recent media events confirm eBay along side the Police are taking the matter serious to hand with no excuses.

It costs not only the buyers but sellers too.

It maybe, in your case a genuine mistake but I will warn you firmly, if you have committed shill bidding don't expect a simple account suspended, they will report you to the Police as well and freeze your PayPal account along side this the Police will ask your bank to hold all funds pending a internal investigation.

I know this to be the course of action taken; and favored by eBay and the Police as on my last year working with a Solicitors firm in Criminal law we had a Police station 20 miles away contact us saying they had a male in Police custody whom they had executed a warranty on his address and in basic terms was suspected of shill bidding at 3 fake addresses and gaining a rough some of £200.000.
He was charged and stood trial, he was remanded in custody and received 6 years!

There was no mistake involved, I have not and never will participate in shill bidding. I have a lady who is a repeat customer and purchases a number of my items! So thanks, but I don't need excusing as I have not done anything wrong. :mad:

I'm well aware of the rules regarding such an offence!

bluenoseam wrote: »

OP has made it clear that she has a repeat customer who buys products of a theme off her, while it may be hideously niave i chose to believe she's telling the truth in this case, in which case i'd suspect that pending the investigation which should prove the fact it's not shill bidding and will then leave you open to request this persons account be banned. The negative marks while they can't be removed i'm sure that seeing two lots of "removed - learn more" will show that this is someone who clearly has a problem and anyone seeing said comments would also - if they are of sensible mind - contact the seller anyways.

Thanks for that reply.

The buyer has her feedback set to 'private' so the only way people would see the removed comments is if they checked my feedback profile, but yes I agree with you it does look like the buyer is a little 'ranty' to have had both her initial and subsequent follow up comment removed.

emby

sassy-one wrote: »

May I just point out that I have not said the OP has shill bidded nor excused them of it, I merely stated a case for others to read and learn from rather than directly for the OP

IMO you implied it.

patman99

Well then, set your F/B to 'private' until the neg drops off the first page

Catslovelycats

I've had negative feedback that was untrue a long time ago. I never bothered doing anything about it and still sold/bought items successfully. Ebay is great when everyone plays fair and can be a very stressful and unpleasant place when people don't. Sorry to hear about your experience.