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]

It's also interesting that the ones listed for 1 day at a higher starting price have gained no bids whatsoever.......yet.

[i-love-my-sheep]

I left a message on their facebook page, from my alternate account. I doubt it will stay there very long, but at least she will know that someone is onto her.

[i-love-my-sheep]

Mr/s 4 FB has suddenly become NARU'd!!! Maybe my message on the facebook page scared them, or maybe eBay is doing their job and taking notice of the reports sent in.

I just had a look at the completed listings for seller with 1987 added (mrs 48 FB) and guess what? Her sold listings were also bumbed up by Mr/s 4 FB AND I'm pretty sure OP's seller, same name without the 1987 added, who has 362 FB. Could be coincidence, but it seems weird that all of 48 FB's completed listings all have a high bid from 362 FB, the exact amount of that bad seller. Although, I don't think it is coincidence because when I clicked on another of 48 FB's completed listings, that fake bidder's feedback increased to 363. I refreshed bad sellers page and sure enough, her feedback increased to 363. Now I am confused because when I clicked on 363 FB to see their bid history, it's saying they have 100% positive and bad seller doesn't have 100%.

Ugh, I really wish there was something on TV!!!!

[cherry*135]

What a tangled web.

I noticed a buyer who had bid on a large number of these items (and low FB) had been made naru (awhile ago).

[amber-eyed-girl]

NARU means eBay took action.

the seller cannot have closed their own account voluntarily, overnight, as eBay will not let you do that if you have recent transactions. To make sure you have finalised everything and paid your fees, if any.

[cq_tech]

It looks like eBay have definitely taken notice of the reports as 3 members have become NARU just today, namely (b***0 (4)), (h***0 (7)), and (0***0 (4)). If the worst offender of all (g***i (48)) becomes NARU also, as that is the seller's alternate ID, I'd expect the seller herself to be kicked off eBay as well. I really hope they do get rid of her because we don't need or want these types of crooked sellers infesting eBay and giving the place a worse name than it already has.

[cq_tech]

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@ilovemychooks wrote:

I left a message on their facebook page, from my alternate account. I doubt it will stay there very long, but at least she will know that someone is onto her.

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Chooks, is her facebook ID the same as her eBay ID? Because if so, it no longer exists.

If it's something different, would you mind letting me know what it is via PM?

[i-love-my-sheep]

Have sent via PM.

Her facebook page is also listed on her listings if anyone else wants to have a go!

My message got removed, so she knows someone is onto her. It was there for 5 hours that I know of and she has 3682 page likers, so someone would have seen my message! Maybe if lots of people leave her messages, her fans might see her for the scammer she is.

If someone is going to leave her a message, leave it under one of her recent photos, that way it shows up on the main page, as opposed to 'posts left by others', which isn't as easily seen. I left it as a regular message and it was in a little box at the side.

Her last listing to be sold, NARU'd 4 FB was the winning bidder.........how can they still win when they have been NARU'd? No, wait, that auction may have finished before they were booted, but is only showing up in completed listings this morning. 48 FB still seems to be active.

[imastawka]

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but,  this thread started on 24/7

Up until 24/7 items were located at Footscray, now they're all at Carnegie.

As for the seller, I know fb is voluntary but her sold items total 1750

yet fb is 383?

And how on earth does she only have USPS postage?

[i-love-my-sheep]

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@imastawka wrote:

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but,  this thread started on 24/7

Up until 24/7 items were located at Footscray, now they're all at Carnegie.

As for the seller, I know fb is voluntary but her sold items total 1750

yet fb is 383?

And how on earth does she only have USPS postage?

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I also wondered about the USPS priority mail. My understanding was, the item had to be sent FROM the US to be sent vis USPS. I have been known to be wrong though LOL!

I also noticed in some of her listings that she has written "international customs and tracking provided"......just like what it says when a US seller uses Global Shipping. Weird. I wonder if she has seen the cost of customs to those countries where you have to pay!!!