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Shill bidding
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As far as I am aware you can leave feedback if you don't pay;lets say a bidder doesn't pay and leaves feedback. If the seller then opens an npb which is completed they can therefore have the feedback removed. You can leave feedback if a mutual cancellation occurs, as I have done this.
So a careful shiller can make sure they just force up the price without retracting.
If anything i think its harder to identify shilling now as bidder usernames are only fully visible to the seller.
Remember this though? shillers watch out!0 -
pug_in_a_bed wrote: »Remember this though? shillers watch out!
OUCH! Any ideas what he was selling/trading? I mean, I don't think ebay would bother cracking down on a few small items... Looks like he was playing it big!0 -
I noticed some strange bids on a painting tonight, which were amounts like £29.99, £34.99 and £39.99 and appeared to be pushing the price up, rather than attempting to win the item.
I clicked the bidder ID and sure enough they have been bidding on a very wide selection of items - you might say, an utterly random selection - but always and only ever from the same seller, always amounts just below price points, like £9.99 or £49.99 and always on items that have already received other bids from genuine bidders.
It's far too much of a coincidence on far too many, wildly diverse items - it's classic shill bidding.
My question is: who do I report it to?
In the past, I've tried Consumer Direct, the OFT and ebay itself and got nowhere. However, in the last year, as pug_in_a_bed reminds us, happily there now seems to be far more interest. Does anyone know who I should pass the details to?"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
...If you can fake that, you've got it made."
Groucho Marx0 -
OUCH! Any ideas what he was selling/trading? I mean, I don't think ebay would bother cracking down on a few small items... Looks like he was playing it big!
lol....
Barrett said he did not realise that bidding on his own items - which included a pie and pasty warmer priced at £127 - was a criminal offence.:rotfl:0 -
LOL
ignorance is no defence in the eyes of the law!0
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