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@4channel wrote:

It's a nasty business. The shill is a sock-puppet type of ID and it was only in the last 2 years that I realized I had been done like that in 2003 / 2004.

 

Best you follow springyzone's advice which sums it up very well.

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Same here, 4channel, although I struck it a bit later than that, when the person who was top bidder was able to retract a bid 24 hours later, just before the final few hours, after having made numerous other bids to drive up the price. I was left the winner, which I did not discover till days later. I have sometimes thought if a person retracts a bid and does not re-bid, then all their bids on that particular auction should be cancelled.

It's a nasty feeling when you suspect you have been manouvred into exposing your top bid.

Interesting that you mentioned that... I confronted him about it and he he pretty much didn't deny it and said he had the set price he wanted.

I'm also winning a few other items that he is selling, (bids placed before all this **bleep** came up), when I went to retract my bids it would not let me. (stuff supporting someone that tried to screw me!)

A message from eBay came up stating my account has been blocked from interacting with this seller???

There was also more shill bidding on the other items that I am winning. I had placed my max bid price on 3 times, then 5 other accounts

100% bidding with the seller and all 5 accounts all bidding on the same items that I am winning!

This bloke doesn't learn.

To be honest you are allowing this to happen, if you're serious about winning actions then you should be putting your highest bid on in the last minute or so of the auction - or use a sniping service like Gixen if you aren't available at the end of the auction.

Yea I learnt that the hard way!