Warning; October 2015; Increasing ebay trader fraud

Sunshine_Superman

Do grow up Dave.

RFW

Sunshine_Superman wrote: »

How so many like to protect the fact that there are bidding problems and attempt to diss anyone bringing this to somebodys elses attention is beyond me.

Keep laughing. It doesnt worry me.

I don't doubt that shill bidding is a problem on Ebay. There is one way to protect yourself, at least to some extent. That is to not bid more than you want to pay, only an idiot would bid more than that. QED:D

Sunshine_Superman

That I do agree with.

I also believe now that when there are so many prior bids on an auction item and the bidder has proven to have many retracted bids to his credit, and a higher than average bidder rating for that particular sellers items then perhaps it is best not to pay the seller until a full investigation is made.

Flyonthewall

Sunshine_Superman wrote: »

How so many like to protect the fact that there are bidding problems and attempt to diss anyone bringing this to somebodys elses attention is beyond me.

Keep laughing. It doesnt worry me.

We know shill bidding happens sometimes. We're not against warnings or reminders, although you seem to have extreme bad luck. What you really brought to attention was about free P&P though.

Sunshine_Superman wrote: »

That I do agree with.

I also believe now that when there are so many prior bids on an auction item and the bidder has proven to have many retracted bids to his credit, and a higher than average bidder rating for that particular sellers items then perhaps it is best not to pay the seller until a full investigation is made.

You bid what you're willing to pay. If you win you should pay. Other bids don't matter. You could see other bids before you bid. If you're unsure about the seller then don't bid. It's that simple.

If you keep refusing to pay you'll end up with non-payment strikes.

tattycath

If someone has so many negative issues with eBay, they shouldn't use it. Simples.