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Have I been shilled?
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Very easily if it was mentioned in the phone call to the store or if the ASDA staff did one of their online price comparisons that they keep talking about in their adverts.How wouls ASDA know you were willing to pay that?
Why is it a daft analogy?
The beer shopper was asked for the maximum that they originally wanted to pay and not the advertised price.
This is no different to the statement by Enfieldian in which they stated that "If it is at the price the OP was willing to pay"0 -
chickaroonee wrote: »Because if they hadn't of shilled me I would have won it for 99p! I often sell things for probably less than the bidders were willing to pay because no-one else bid, that is the nature of auctions - no need to bid on your own listings.
Not had a second chance offer anyway.
Not necessarily if it was cheap another buyer might of thought ooh Ill bid on that and then get carried away with the bidding.Wins so far this year: Mum to be bath set, follow me Domino Dog, Vital baby feeding set, Spiderman goody bag, free pack of Kiplings cakes, £15 love to shop voucher, HTC Desire, Olive oil cooking spray, Original Source Strawberry Shower Gel, Garnier skin care hamper, Marc Jacobs fragrance.0 -
If a seller is dishonest enough to shill bid with confidence, they're dishonest enough to try ripping buyers off by other means - don't go anywhere near them!chickaroonee wrote: »They've made 56 bids on 11 items of this seller's - and they are all different types of things.
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
...If you can fake that, you've got it made."
Groucho Marx0 -
You have to be over 18 to buy beer in ASDA and also to bid on ebay so it is a good analogy.
I don't think they would have, the way it was listed but I guess you'll have to take my word for that.
Macfly you are picking over semantics - if you read my OP I clearly was asking if it sounded like it was the seller bidding on their own items, and that was what I meant by shilling.
too many comps..not enough time!0 -
Well I have had a second chance offer after all...
too many comps..not enough time!0 -
That sounds like shilling. The seller's used a shill bidder to work out your max bid. Personally, I'd just ignore the second chance and buy someone elses.0
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