Can someone please tell me whats going on?

mah_jong

I am on the lookout for a laptop, so have been looking quite keenly for a wee while.
Tonight another seller with 0 rating and and new seller status sells an IBM...the buyer sounds familiar.... so I look up one still in my watched list from Sunday ...yes she bought from a similar seller then.

So I look into her profile and she has bought 15 over the last dew days, . I look at each of the sellers until I find one with feedback (I think 4 or 5back), there my seller is given along with another familiar name...so I check him out and guess what ...he too is buying laptops .....BUT there are the same names are popping up again in that list!

Is it a game? Is it a con?

This was tonights
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6757084107&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT

Tojo_Ralph

mah_jong wrote:

I am on the lookout for a laptop, so have been looking quite keenly for a wee while.
Tonight another seller with 0 rating and and new seller status sells an IBM...the buyer sounds familiar.... so I look up one still in my watched list from Sunday ...yes she bought from a similar seller then.

So I look into her profile and she has bought 15 over the last dew days, . I look at each of the sellers until I find one with feedback (I think 4 or 5back), there my seller is given along with another familiar name...so I check him out and guess what ...he too is buying laptops .....BUT there are the same names are popping up again in that list!

Is it a game? Is it a con?

This was tonights
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6757084107&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT

OK.....

Look at all the auctions they have bid on.....

http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidItems&userid=teresa4671&completed=1&all=1&rows=25&sort=3

Pick a couple of auctions....

Right Click on the images.....

Notice anything?

http://hyper.jackpot888.com/121.jpg

http://hyper.jackpot888.com/122.jpg

http://hyper.jackpot888.com/123.jpg

Then try....

http://hyper.jackpot888.com

.... Getting the picture?

mah_jong

Sorry Tojo..but the computer is taking ages to load anything..but I did det a page in Russian!!
Can you tell me in easy peasy words whats going on??? Please.


Ma

my head already spinning froma hard day at work !

Tojo_Ralph

OK...

You have one seller/buyer.
All sellers are the same person.
All the sellers host their images on the same website.
Shill bidder wins each auction.
Offers to the second, third, fourth highest bidder are made outwith EBay.
Underbidders part with cash.
Scam complete.

Tojo_Ralph

Time to get on the Batphone before it's too late.....

mah_jong

Tojo_Ralph wrote:

OK...

You have one seller/buyer.
All sellers are the same person.
All the sellers host their images on the same website.
Shill bidder wins each auction.
Offers to the second, third, fourth highest bidder are made outwith EBay.
Underbidders part with cash.
Scam complete.

Ahhhhhh....scam !

Thanks for that! my brain cell was not working!!

stavros_2

good work tojo. I'm very impressed you noticed that!

Tojo_Ralph

stavros wrote:

good work tojo. I'm very impressed you noticed that!

I'ts fair to say I've had some practice.

This particular one runs pretty deep, involving dozens and dozens of newbie accounts and what look to be, previously dormant, possibly hijacked accounts.

Take a look at these two ........ Note the normal activity before the recent change in bidding activity.

http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidItems&userid=tom_curnew&completed=1&all=1&rows=25&sort=3

http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidItems&userid=redhairedsandy&completed=1&all=1&rows=25&sort=3

mah_jong

Morning Tojo

The last one you listed there, was the second one I looked at ....... and then I thought WEIRD as some of the sellers were the same as the new selllers on the winner of the one I posted yesterday. I have never seen this before...hence my OP. I couldnt understand why winning and not just hiking the price up....but then, that is not what they are about, is it!

I see two laptops have been listed scince I looked yesterday .....and guess what ....the seller is mentioned, on the list, of the one above. Does that make sense???

OH...I am such an innocent!!!

Can anything be done?
Ma

Tojo_Ralph

Roll Up, Roll Up, place your bets on todays two big races.. the "Cheap UK Laptop Hurdles" and the "Bargain UK Notebook Stakes".

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=177&item=5182794971&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3715&item=6757689351&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

From a field of millions, the bookies have somehow narrowed it down to four likely winners, all US bred, US trained and US stabled, but all are yet to even enter the running!!!

raxwulf : 1/4

teresa4671 : 3/1

tom_curnew : 7/2

rehaired sandy : 6/1

BAR 200/1

A racing insider was quoted as saying..."Put your house on raxwulf"... But at such short odds, from a field of millions, is that wise?

mah_jong

teresa4671 : 3/1

My money is on her......