SHILL BIDDING SHOULD BE ILLEGAL! PLEASE HELP!

[kaos2015]

I want to report a member on behalf of my friend who was been trying to buy an item but the seller seems to be a scammer by driving up the prices with fake accounts. Maybe we are wrong and maybe we are not but-  it looks like a fishy and it smells like a fishy so it almost has to be fishy!

Item number: 181468915740

ITEM NUMBER 181 468 915 740 ( this is only one example- nearly every current listing has 2 bidders driving up prices on the sellers items and going through all the items in the feedback history the 2 bidders are constantly bidding)

They are using fake accounts to drive up the price and that is illegal!!!!! I think it is called shill bidding.

We have checked the sellers items sold, the number of bidders and all the feedback left and it DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!!!!

And the strange thing is these 2 bidders who have bid thousands of times on her items in 30 days cant be found in her feedback yet they are bidding large amounts but never seem to win or leave feedback. That is strange.

SELLER ID godblessmaria

We have gone through all the current listings and a lot of recent listings and it is the SAME BIDDERS ALWAYS DRIVING UP THE PRICES!!!

Currently 1 person bidding is b***0 (4) with 4 feedback.

In the last 30 days it says they have made 2282 bids on 451 items and 90% of the bid activity is with godblessmaria.

That DOES NOT MAKE SENSE that someone has made 2282 bids in ONE MONTH and only has a feedback of 4??????? They have made 2053 bids on godblessmaria listings and has only 4 feedback in one month?

ANOTHER bidder is g***i (48) with 48 feedback. In 30 days they have made 1493 bids on 426 items, 99% of them with godblessmaria. And only have a feedback of 48?????

This is shill bidding and is illegal and they are STEALING from other Ebay bidders by driving the prices up!!!

And they are not bidding small amount but large amounts!!!!!! Sometimes over $200

What we think they are doing is driving up the prices to MASSIVE amounts and then not completing the checkout- they are just paying the 10% fees and then giving second chance offers hence recovering the costs for the FVF transactions they never complete and STILL making sales with 'second chance offers'.

Is there anyway Ebay and Paypal can check that the sales made on Ebay through the possible fake bidders are actually getting completed through Paypal?

How is it that 2 people have made 3775 bids on ONE SELLER in ONE MONTH with a total feedback of only 52 between them???

THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Why is this allowed to happen?

My friend wants to bid but it is plain to see that godblessmaria has people driving up prices with THOUSANDS of bids that never win!!!!!!!!

Please tell me what is going on! And please correct us if we are wrong

Thank you.

[i-love-my-sheep]

I just noticed that the completed listings of 48 FB ALSO says "international customs and tracking provided". If that's not proof it's the same person, I don't know what is!! Why would someone in Aus say something straight out the books of the Global Shipping Program? *scratches head*

[2011.narelle]

LOLZ chooks007 has a gift !

Great work,i hope you get bored more often.

[i-love-my-sheep]

I just had a 2 hour power outage, so had to stop the detective work!! Sure my phone was working, but much harder to do detective work on that.

It's amazing how as a group, one by one these shill bidders have been uncovered, reported and removed (except the main 2 offenders.....but eBay might just be watching those 2 accounts to see what they do?). We still need more people to report the active listings on the bad sellers page as her alter ego is still upping bids on her items. 181472799969 is the next one to end, but gives you access to the rest of her listings. Interestingly, the bidding has significantly slowed on her items. 

It will be interesting to see if/when the alter ego lists some new items. Alter ego is same name but with 1987 on the end. Given that she removed my message from her facebook page, she knows someone is onto her. I left another message under her top photo and that is still there almost 4 hours later. Just refreshed and it's still there. Would be good if others could leave one too, then she would know that LOTS of people are onto her.

[i-love-my-sheep]

I just read the 'about' on her facebook page and read something quite interesting. She is offering to sell her eBay listed items OFF eBay. Maybe something else we can report her for too?

"Till now we just selling on ebay..you can also check our many positive feedbacks from our buyers that we gain in very short period...visit our ebay store in this link (I removed the link)

But if you don't have the ebay acc. You can just message us too with the picture or the item no which in ebay. we accept paypal, wire transfer and pay on pick up too."

I will take a screen shot in case she decides to change it.

[imastawka]

chooks,  I hope you are compiling your invoice for ebay to pay you

for all this time and effort.

                                 (as if)

[i-love-my-sheep]

Well, she must be worried, she shut her facebook page down!!! I tried on both my accounts, thinking she may have just blocked me on the account I left the message with, but it seems to be gone, gone, gone as I can't access it on my main account either!!! That will teach her to mess with the keyboard detectives on this site LOL!

[imastawka]

She's put up another 28 listings today.  Starting at 5am through to 7.42pm

And there are now 71 followers

[i-love-my-sheep]

Funny how out of all her listings, she now only has 1 bid on 1 item. Maybe she has realised her game is up and she'd better clean her act up.

Maybe me making a threat of calling the police on her via her facebook page worried her *evil grin*. That was after I called her a fraud and a thief 😄

[imastawka]

Hahahaha......You do seem to be enjoying yourself           

[i-love-my-sheep]

LOL, yes, I am having fun. Plus, I hate seeing innocent people getting laced up by thieves. There's enough low lives in the real world, without having them on eBay as well.