on 24-07-2014 01:14 AM
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!
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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.
on 25-07-2014 02:52 AM
on 25-07-2014 03:50 AM
I was under the impression that shill bidding is illegal, if this is the case why would ebay facilitate this? If it is obvious then ebay should know about it and remove the accounts, and if they don't IMO they are just as guilty as the lister from red dwarf.
on 25-07-2014 09:23 AM
on 25-07-2014 12:09 PM
Would be nice if we could check up on the cryptic message I left in my last post. That one has 4 feedback, but it seems everyone is having issues with 'page not responding' when trying to search by bidder name.
on 25-07-2014 12:58 PM
Figured out your cryptic messsage, lol.
I found 4 fb guy by using the 'find member' link instead.
Has had no feedback since March 12 and none from our seller
But that still doesn't give us what he has bid on and won/lost
So, really, no help at all, am I? hahaha
on 25-07-2014 01:22 PM
I tried to access that page on my phone, using both the regular webpage and the mobile webpage. The regular webpage gave me the same error (both using home network and 4G) and the mobile webpage didn't give the option of searching. There is also no option on the mobile app to do an advanced search (that I could find).
Hopefully *someone* can use the search by bidder without getting the error message!!!
on 25-07-2014 02:15 PM
There is an old post from October last year: WTH!? No more Advanced Search by Bidder. Appartently you can't search by bidder anymore. I even tried searching for myself ha ha! And nothing came up.
What I don't understand is how long does it take for Ebay to act, I also bidded on an item a low bid then reported it as soon as I saw the shill bidders came on. I wouldn't of mind paying $5.00 for one of those prints. I looked at my didn't win section and the same item was relisted so I didn't even get a second chance! ha ha!
Seriously though how long does it take for Ebay to act on something like this? Anyone know?
on 25-07-2014 02:29 PM
Up until last week, I had been using the 'advanced search
by bidder', with no trouble.
So the problem is only recent.
on 25-07-2014 02:34 PM
So, not to get off track here - has anyone reported the seller from the original post to ebay?
on 25-07-2014 02:46 PM
A few of us have apparently.
Does someone know, if ebay does nothing, what happens then?