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.

[go-tazz]

When these obvious shill bidders are brought to the boards can everyone who sees the posts please report

them.

That way we know there would have been numerous reports and they may be sanctioned quicker.

To report shill bidder listings you can use the Report item link on the listing page,(above the item number).

Then use the drop down boxes: Listing practices > Fraudulent listing practices > Seller is using other accounts

to inflate item price, >Continue > Send report.

[harley_babes_hoard]

report all listings not just the one mentioned above

[i-love-my-sheep]

I'm bored, there is nothing much on the tele, so I have reported all the listings that have bids......even the listings that said the buyers were private.

Now I am going through their followers, all 68 of them and I have come across one with 4 feedback. Only problem I'm having checking that one is, when I search for bidder to try and get their bid history, I'm getting a 'page not responding, try again later' error on the page. I can seach for everything else in advanced search, but not bidders. 

Maybe someone else could try by seeing below, if I am onto something?

I just got a zap from my remote. All is well and good though 🙂

[mightynavyblue]

The bidder that is metioned in the OP with 48 feedback- lo and behold it is the identical name to the seller but with 1987 on the end.

So check out the listing, 181468915740, add 1987 to the end of the sellers name and there's your mystery bidder.

LOL so funny- how can Ebay not see that someone with identical names with only a year added to the name isn't dodgy. Ridiculous to say the least!

[harley_babes_hoard]

we have relisted a heap with more realistic start prices now

[2011.narelle]

Awww i can't check anything,all i get is the page not responding message.

Now i gotta live vicariously through all of you having fun,Sherlocking around.

[imastawka]

I've had  'page not responding'  on advanced search for days now

[imastawka]

 Someone tipped them off  IMO

So much 'original' artwork.  I wonder if they've got a Round Tuit?     lol

[2011.narelle]

They broke it!

Any ideas why it's not working for some peoples?

I'm home alone with yellow hair & no friends (yes those things are probably connected)& i can't search this new intrigue.

[imastawka]

Nope.  Can't find buyers.   Everything else is ok though

So, now, how come they've started a whole bunch of new auctions

at a better staring price?

1 cent starting price is just ridiculous