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]

Her facebook page has been reactivated......and she has updated her 'about'. It's no longer offering to sell the listings off eBay. One could almost assume that someone told her she was going to be reported of that offence. She has also removed the painting from her profile that I left the messages under.

The other offending seller has listing a lot more paintings as well, but they are all BIN's.

[imastawka]

Not at all the outcome that it should have been IMO.

Where's the restricted selling or even banned from selling for a certain time

for the blatant ripping off of buyers hard earned dollars?

Not happy Jan!

[i-love-my-sheep]

Yeah, I'm a bit miffed too, especially as all the evidence was given to eBay. I would imagine if we tried that stunt, our accounts would be closed down in a heartbeat.

Her other page still doesn't have listings, but is still active.

[imastawka]

Send ebay your invoice for your time chooks - don't forget GST

[lalala-au]

Miffed? You have every right to be furious! I wonder how many readers of this have seen what happens and now think they can do the same. Since the so called "sanctions" are so light and easy.... This is very disappointing!!!

[go-tazz]

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@imastawka wrote:

So,  she has listed 30 auctions on 29/7   and

another 27 auctions today.

Sanctions?        Don't make me laugh.

The only thing that has changed is the shill bidding has stopped.

So, it seems it's ok to shill bid - there are no sanctions?!!!???

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She has been NARU'd and the listings have been removed.

When the correct reports are made eBay do take action.

[diecastcarsvicki]

good work everyone.

seems the system works just takes time. 

[i-love-my-sheep]

Oh WOW!!!!! BOTH her accounts have been removed. At least we know now that action will be taken......albeit very slowly. I guess when you think about it, they probably get thousands of reports a day about different listings and different members, so it would take time to filter through them and investigate them properly. 

It will be interesting to see how long it takes for her to open a new account up. I believe she will because she doesn't have the same power to rip people off via her facebook page.

Oh happy days!!! 

[cq_tech]

Good to see that eBay have also NARUed her alternate ID, as well as both of her accomplices, the 4 & 7 feedback 'bidders'.

Sometimes the system does actually work. Well done eBay, although not before time.

Now we just have to watch that a 'new' seller of these paintings doesn't suddenly surface.

[imastawka]

When the correct reports are made eBay do take action.

More likely it was the outrage on these boards that made ebay jump.

A report is a report.   It is their own reporting system.  How do you make

an incorrect report.