shill bidding

sarahnorman

are these 2 users shill bidding
misssjames1969 216 feedback
missgiggles0779 81 feedback

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the 81 feedback i keep seeing them as the high bidder on misssjames1969..,when they win the seller relists the item.


the 216 feedbackis bidding on all missgiggles items

they have left feedback for reach other in the past many times

if u look through items for sale and feedback then go to items
each others feedback and name marker on all nearly all sales


am i correct?

hermum

It certainly looks as though they could be.

dmliverpool

Report them to ebay and get them shut down. I hate buying items only for dodgy person to come along. I bought a tiffany and co bracelet which I would advise people not to, from ebay. it turned out the £50 i shelled out was a £3 piece of tut. I throw the book at them and ensured i got my money back via paypal who were great at sorting it out. if there is a big item in your sites its worth checking the feedback of people who are bidding especially if you get out bid twice when trying to put a price in. All a seller has to do is sell an item, bid on it via another name and then anything above what they have put in is a bonus.

sarahnorman

not really bothered about reporting them ,but a friend brought a item and was looking who was bidding against her ,and it was the same bidder on nearly all items so watched sales for 2 weeks ,if they bid and win the item gets relisted .and they bid on everything .if u start watching a item ,within a few hrs it will have a 99p bid on it from them.
and vise vera what they sell the other person bids on nealry all there items.

chemical.galaxy

Almost certainly! not clever to leave yourself feedback when shill bidding!
Report!

techspec

I reported a shill bidder and Ebay were not interested. Why would they be - it makes them money.

The shill acount had a feedback of 46 - all from the seller. This included the same car twice and another car -so not just a returning customer.

Ebay took no action and he continues today.

levis2891

i also recently reported a shill bidder to ebay, i wanted an item and like the first poster checked out the other bidders and funny enough a person with zero feedback had 100% bids with this seller.
on everyitem they listed and if it didn't sell they relisted!

at first i also thought maybe it was my imagination but i looked at bidding in the feedback for that seller and for the last few months its always the same zerofeedback seller upping the price!

it was the first time i reported a shill bidder and i think ebay suspended their account (checked later and all their relistings had ended and nothing listed since), so ebay do take shill bidders seriously as it really is unfair on all us honest bidders.

lovinituk

I'm really surprised that ebays software doesn't pick up on scenarios like this automatically! Unless they don't want it too!!

shaun_from_Africa

They probably bought the software from a seller on ebay and it turned out to be counterfeit so they couldn't register and install it.

lovinituk

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

They probably bought the software from a seller on ebay and it turned out to be counterfeit so they couldn't register and install it.

LOL! Very good!

Kite2010

lovinituk wrote: »

I'm really surprised that ebays software doesn't pick up on scenarios like this automatically! Unless they don't want it too!!

And miss out on extra money in fees?