Shill bidding

[cocteau_pins]

Another dodgy seller falls through the ebay cracks.....

[*tippy*toes*]

Yes, one could, but one would probably have no reason to check a bidders history on their own items as they already know how many bids they have made. If it told you what else they had bid on rather than just a category it could be more useful I think. 

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@clubesquire wrote:

Thank you Kope's. Very clear now.

i needs to know everything .... lol.

Melina.

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Melina, you could always read the contents of the site map

edit: just had a thought . . . . maybe melina doesn’t know how to find the site map.  There is a link to the site map at the bottom of eBay pages.

[clubesquire]

I've got it. Thank you. And wow!! So much.

Oh dear. I'm not going to tell you what I thought site map was.

Melina.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@clubesquire wrote:

I've got it. Thank you. And wow!! So much.

Oh dear. I'm not going to tell you what I thought site map was.

Melina.

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please do!

I promise not to tell anyone 

[jack_mastora]

the reality is ebay makes money from shill bidders and dont seem to care. It wouldnt be hard for someone to write a script to detect paticular behaviour and to have a team who investigates any account that happens to trigger that scripts criteria, heck i'm sure there are people who would do it for free, ebay also needs compatent people looking over any complaints about shill bidding I made a complaint previously about a shill bidder and the Ebay rep was saying there was nothing wrong with the buyer who had over 2000 bids with just the one seller and who was a buyer with a rating of (1). it took over 30mins to explain to the ebay rep how they were wrong and they finally took it to the safty team or whoever but i'm not sure if anything was done or not we we are kept in the dark.

on a different note I just came across this legit buyer who is servising the same seller i complained about.

clearly this buyer Live, breaths, eats, and doesnt sleep for ebay. like how can ebay miss this legit buyer **bleep**.

[*tippy*toes*]

177,000 bids in the last 30 days? I wouldn't be having the app logged on, the notifications for item ending would be horrendous. It would cause the device to implode. How can someone possibly have so many bids? They are all single bids on single items too. They'd have to be bidding several times a second, 24 hours a day.

[jack_mastora]

Would you of known it, Still going 18hrs later, right now I wouldnt be supprised if this is what ebay emploies do for a living......

[*tippy*toes*]

That would nearly have to be some kind of record. If you look at that ended auction, there are 2 bidders with 2 feedback. One has over 1800 bids in the last 30 days, the other has over 2300. Both 100% with that seller.

[jack_mastora]

yeah I am aware that seller has multiple shill bidders _***s has won so many auctions with this seller and still has a rating of 2, that account will take bids all the way up to $11 - $12 then will stop bidding but anything less and they are the winner of the listing. it tok some time to convince the ebay rep that his was a shill bidder, they were trying to tell me this was normal behaviour.... 😕 

what puzzles me is why ebay has allowed this seller to keep selling when they clearly have multiple shill bidders.....

and btw almost 200000 and ebay still hasnt red flagged this persons account

[go-tazz]

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@jack_mastora wrote:

what puzzles me is why ebay has allowed this seller to keep selling when they clearly have multiple shill bidders.....

and btw almost 200000 and ebay still hasnt red flagged this persons account

They don't care as it's making them money,(they have no ethics).

Over the years they've tried to make it harder to find and report shill bidders so that they can continue to

make money for them,(anything that makes them money will not be removed and it doesn't matter whether

it's morally wrong/unethical or scams other members)