Fake number of sold items on listing

I found a seller that I suspect has inflated their number of sold items. I'm talking about that red text on a listing that tell the seller  "31 sold". 

I believe this was inflated as when I click on "31 sold" I see that 30 were sold for $1.50 to a buyer with no feed back. The average price for the item is $300 therefore not making any sense for that price to be real.

 

Is this a breach of eBay's policies and has anyone else discovered this before?

 

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Fake number of sold items on listing

What is the item number - RHS of the listing page.

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The item number: 254971166058

10 sold for $1.50

Then I suspect a real sale of $295

 

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That's a strange one, there's only 1 sold in completed listings on 10th May when supposedly the 30 were sold at $1.50 (possibly US time there). It could be that the seller made a mistake on the price and someone tried to snap up 30 of them at $1.50. I've looked at their other listings and there's no red flags there and the feedback's OK.

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