Warning To All Sellers

snaveuk

I've come across a complete nutter, current feedback -4 who is bidding on auctions without any intention of paying.
What's worse is that a load of these auctions are ending in the next hour and I'm sure that you can't cancel peoples bids with less than 12 hours left, or am I wrong?
Case in point here http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7500444864 I figure maybe if we work on this we might be able to warn the other sellers, just in case there is something they can do.

Dan

RACHIE77

snaveuk, This guy is NRUd now (thankfully!) looks like he was a bit of a timewaster - although all of the auctions only finished in the last few hours so I can't see how could get written off for non payment so quickly??

odd

fatboyonadiet

Why do people do this? Waste of time

snaveuk

Looks like he only registered today too! I know that sellers can claim back FMV's, but I don't think they can claim back there inital listing costs :mad:

I'm thinking there should be some type of system on ebay. Whereby if you're a newbie you're only allowed to bid on items of up to £5.00 in value, and when you have good feedback, let's say 5, then you can bid on expensive items like cars and camcorders.

Dan

RACHIE77

Or, the money just comes straight from his bank - that would teach him

RowaN

When you login to ebay there is an option you can tick to prevent people with -1 or lower feedback bidding on your auctions. Also you can prevent people who've had a unpaid item strike in the last 30 days bidding. Very useful.

payless

look at this bidding history

http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewBidItems&sort=3&userid=smithp3911&fcl=3&frpp=50&sacat=-1&nojspr=y&sspagename=h%3Ah%3Aadvsearch%3AUk&sofocus=bs&fsop=1&catref=C5&fsoo=1&from=R7&nojspr=y&pfid=0&completed=1&all=1&rows=25

payless

mainly cars- wasn't there a free listing day last week ?

so all those will need to go back to losing bidders or relist!

criminal_smile

payless wrote:

mainly cars- wasn't there a free listing day last week ?

Perhaps a more cynical soul than myself might think that Ebay had 'employed' someone to set up false bids, thereby forcing all those sellers to relist......at full price of course.

payless

criminal_smile wrote:

Perhaps a more cynical soul than myself might think that Ebay had 'employed' someone to set up false bids, thereby forcing all those sellers to relist......at full price of course.

can't say the same thought had not crossed my mind

snaveuk

criminal_smile wrote:

Perhaps a more cynical soul than myself might think that Ebay had 'employed' someone to set up false bids, thereby forcing all those sellers to relist......at full price of course.

Yowser. I've read somewhere that ebay appear to be shill bidding on various auctions. Just rasing the price by 5p or so, but just enougth to earn them an extra 1p. If they do this frequentlly, it would raise thier revenue somewhat dramaticlly.

But to do this? Would they be able to get away with it?


Edit - Added
This article explains it better http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/24/ebay_shill_lawsuit/